Past Tense Studies in the Archaeology of Conflict

This special issue of the Journal of Conflict Archaeology serves as an introduction to the journal and the field. 13 essays deal with battlefied remains in Europe, Africa, North American and Asia. Tony Pollard is one of Britain's leading battlefield archaelogists. He read archaeology and military history at the University of Glasgow and received a doctorate in 1995. He has worked with both the Field Archaeology Unit of University College, London and was until recently a senior project manager at the University of Glasgow. He has carried out pioneering work on battlefields in Zululand and North Africa, and as a forensic archaeologist he has worked with police force throughout Britain. Tonwy has stepped down to the role of project manager to concentrate on working on the popular BBC TV series on battlefield archaeology, called Two Men in a Trench. Iain Banks has been a project Manager for GUARD (Glasgow University Archaeological Research Dividion) since 1994 and became its Deptue Director in 1997. Iain's doctoral thesis was on the rural settlement of Scotland in the first millennia AD and BC. His research interests include the Iron Age in Scotland, early Medieval Scotaland and Ireland, Medieval or later rural settlement and the archaeology of nationalism. Iain is responsible for managing geophysical surveys and has carried out a large numebr of surveys across Scotland, and has undertaken surveys in Cyprus, Libya and South Africa. He is Director of Operations of the GUARD forensic unit, providing specialist geophysics skills. He is currently heavily involved in battlefied archaeology, working with Tony Pollard and Neil Oliver on the BBC TV series Two Men in a Trench.Pollard, Tony is the author of 'Past Tense Studies in the Archaeology of Conflict', published 2006 under ISBN 9789004149762 and ISBN 9004149767.