Challenges and Specificities of Battlefield Archaeology in Argentina: The Case of Cepeda Battlefield, 1859
The battle of Cepeda, 1859, was one of the high points in the crucial confrontation between the Argentine Confederation and the then rebellious Buenos Aires Province, which shaped the process of modern nation state building. Whereas the confederate army commanded by president Justo J. Urquiza def...
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The battle of Cepeda, 1859, was one of the high points in the crucial confrontation
between the Argentine Confederation and the then rebellious Buenos Aires
Province, which shaped the process of modern nation state building. Whereas the
confederate army commanded by president Justo J. Urquiza defeated the
provincial army led by Bartolomé Mitre, this victory would not be decisive and
more fighting would follow until Buenos Aires’ definitive triumph in 1861. The
battle has only been studied by historians, using the contradictory commanders’
battle reports.
This paper presents the archaeological research on the battlefield. We discuss
methods, finds, and interpretations, but also use this case study to address three
major issues that differentiate this battlefield study from contemporary European
and North American cases: 1) Heterodox battle tactics, which combined
Napoleonic style tactics for infantry and artillery, with a locally developed emphasis
on irregular and light cavalry; 2) A lack of written sources on both weapons
employed and specific details of the battle; 3) Landscape transformations that
significantly altered the original battle ground. As a whole, these issues - a
widespread occurrence in Argentine XIXst century battles - challenge the
development of battlefield studies and pose limitations to its interpretive potential. |
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Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland |
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Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Leoni, Juan Bautista Martínez, Lucas H. |
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Leoni, Juan Bautista Martínez, Lucas H. |
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Leoni, Juan Bautista |
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Challenges and Specificities of Battlefield Archaeology in Argentina: The Case of Cepeda Battlefield, 1859 |
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Challenges and Specificities of Battlefield Archaeology in Argentina: The Case of Cepeda Battlefield, 1859 |
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Challenges and Specificities of Battlefield Archaeology in Argentina: The Case of Cepeda Battlefield, 1859 |
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Challenges and Specificities of Battlefield Archaeology in Argentina: The Case of Cepeda Battlefield, 1859 |
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Challenges and Specificities of Battlefield Archaeology in Argentina: The Case of Cepeda Battlefield, 1859 |
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challenges and specificities of battlefield archaeology in argentina: the case of cepeda battlefield, 1859 |
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Conference Proceedings: Fields Of Conflict |
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2021 |
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http://hdl.handle.net/2133/21435 http://hdl.handle.net/2133/21435 |
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