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Dr J Carman
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About the Project
A PhD project with John Carman will focus on battlefield archaeology.
Historic battlefields are the subject of research by the Bloody Meadows Project – a joint enterprise with Patricia Carman – which studies such places as landscapes. Our aim is to understand the attitudes to place brought by warriors in the past to the places where they carried out their violent activities, and to compare those places so sought in one period with those sought in other periods; this leads us to apply a broadly ‘phenomenological’ approach to their investigation. A related concern – and one linked with the interest in heritage value – is with the way such places are remembered or memorialised This work was the subject of a book published by Suttons in 2006, Bloody Meadows: investigating cultural landscapes of battle.
My interests in the field of conflict cover from the prehistoric period to the most recent. Current students supervised by me are looking at World War II defences in Wales, the evidence for warfare in prehistoric Europe and Viking defensive sites in Britain. Previous students have studied War Memorials in Birmingham and how to find mass graves on battlefields of the 17th century English Civil War.
Historic battlefields are the subject of research by the Bloody Meadows Project – a joint enterprise with Patricia Carman – which studies such places as landscapes. Our aim is to understand the attitudes to place brought by warriors in the past to the places where they carried out their violent activities, and to compare those places so sought in one period with those sought in other periods; this leads us to apply a broadly ‘phenomenological’ approach to their investigation. A related concern – and one linked with the interest in heritage value – is with the way such places are remembered or memorialised This work was the subject of a book published by Suttons in 2006, Bloody Meadows: investigating cultural landscapes of battle.
My interests in the field of conflict cover from the prehistoric period to the most recent. Current students supervised by me are looking at World War II defences in Wales, the evidence for warfare in prehistoric Europe and Viking defensive sites in Britain. Previous students have studied War Memorials in Birmingham and how to find mass graves on battlefields of the 17th century English Civil War.
References
J. Carman & Patricia Carman. Bloody Meadows: investigating landscapes of battle. Sutton, 2006, ISBN 0-7509-3734-3
J. Carman & P. Carman. ‘Ancient Bloody Meadows: Classical battlefields in Greece’. In T. Pollard & I Banks (eds) Past Tense: studies in the archaeology of conflict, Leiden & Boston, Brill (also published as Journal of Conflict Archaeology 1.1), January 2006, 19-44.
J. Carman. ‘Battlefields as cultural resources’. Post-Medieval Archaeology 39.2, December 2005, 215-223
J. Carman & P. Carman. ‘Mustering Landscapes: what historic battlefields share in common’. In D. D. Scott, Babits, L. & Haecker, C. (eds) Fields of Conflict: battlefield archaeology from the Roman Empire to the Korean War (2 vols), Praeger Security International, Westport Conn. & London, 2007, 39-49
J. Carman & P. Carman 'The intangible presence: investigating battlefields' in J. Carman & M L S Sorensen (eds) Heritage Studies: methods & approaches, London, Routledge, 2009, 292-315
J. Carman & P. Carman. ‘From Rhetoric to Research: the Bloody Meadows project as a pacifist response to war’. In L.McAtackney, M. Palus & A,. Piccini (eds), Contemporary and Hiostorical Archaeology in Theory: papers from the 2003 and 2004 CHAT conferences, BAR International Series 1677, 2007, 109-114
J. Carman & P. Carman. ‘War in prehistoric society: modern views of ancient violence’. In M. Parker-Pearson & I.J.N. Thorpe (eds) Warfare, Violence and Slavery in Prehistory: proceedings of a Prehistoric Society conference at Sheffield University. Oxford, Archaeopress, BAR International Series 1374, 2005, 217-224
J. Carman & P. Carman. ‘Ancient Bloody Meadows: Classical battlefields in Greece’. In T. Pollard & I Banks (eds) Past Tense: studies in the archaeology of conflict, Leiden & Boston, Brill (also published as Journal of Conflict Archaeology 1.1), January 2006, 19-44.
J. Carman. ‘Battlefields as cultural resources’. Post-Medieval Archaeology 39.2, December 2005, 215-223
J. Carman & P. Carman. ‘Mustering Landscapes: what historic battlefields share in common’. In D. D. Scott, Babits, L. & Haecker, C. (eds) Fields of Conflict: battlefield archaeology from the Roman Empire to the Korean War (2 vols), Praeger Security International, Westport Conn. & London, 2007, 39-49
J. Carman & P. Carman 'The intangible presence: investigating battlefields' in J. Carman & M L S Sorensen (eds) Heritage Studies: methods & approaches, London, Routledge, 2009, 292-315
J. Carman & P. Carman. ‘From Rhetoric to Research: the Bloody Meadows project as a pacifist response to war’. In L.McAtackney, M. Palus & A,. Piccini (eds), Contemporary and Hiostorical Archaeology in Theory: papers from the 2003 and 2004 CHAT conferences, BAR International Series 1677, 2007, 109-114
J. Carman & P. Carman. ‘War in prehistoric society: modern views of ancient violence’. In M. Parker-Pearson & I.J.N. Thorpe (eds) Warfare, Violence and Slavery in Prehistory: proceedings of a Prehistoric Society conference at Sheffield University. Oxford, Archaeopress, BAR International Series 1374, 2005, 217-224
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Career overview
Dr John Carman is an archaeologist with a focus on the role of archaeology in contemporary society, particularly in the fields of cultural heritage and conflict archaeology, especially the archaeology of battlefields. He obtained an MPhil in Archaeology in 1988 and a PhD in Archaeology in 1993 from the University of Cambridge. His doctoral research examined English law''s impact on archaeological material, culminating in the publication of *Valuing Ancient Things* in 1996. Following his PhD, Dr Carman served as a Research Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge from 1993 to 1999, and subsequently as an Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at Cambridge until 2005. During this time, he initiated the *Bloody Meadows* Project, which investigates historic battlefields as landscapes. Dr Carman''s early contributions to Conflict Archaeology include *Material Harm* (1997) and *Ancient Warfare* (1999). In 2005, he joined the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity at the University of Birmingham as a Senior Lecturer in Heritage Valuation and later transferred to the Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage in 2013. His work at Birmingham has led to significant publications, including *Bloody Meadows* (2006) and *Archaeologies of Conflict* (2013), and he has played a key role in commemorating historical battles, notably the 1708 Battle of Oudenaarde, while collaborating with the Ename Center in Belgium. Dr Carman has continued to publish extensively in the fields of Archaeology and Heritage, with notable works such as *Heritage Studies* (2009) and *Archaeological Resource Management: an international perspective* (2015). His current research includes a co-authored volume stemming from the *Bloody Meadows* Project.
Research interests
Dr John Carman''s research focuses on the role of material remains from the past, particularly in the fields of cultural heritage and conflict archaeology, with a specific emphasis on battlefields. He is interested in the ideological aspects of heritage, the institutions managing it, and the types of objects classified as heritage. His work examines how ownership influences attitudes towards material heritage and the various values assigned to it. Dr Carman''s projects include the Bloody Meadows Project, which investigates historic battlefields as landscapes, aiming to understand the attitudes of past warriors towards these sites. He has published extensively on topics related to archaeology and heritage, including works such as *Valuing Ancient Things*, *Bloody Meadows*, and *Archaeological Resource Management: an international perspective*. His current research includes a second co-authored volume from the Bloody Meadows Project and participation in the ESTOC network, which studies sites of past conflict across Europe.
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