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Desk-Based Investigation

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The events of the Holocaust had a dramatic impact upon the landscape of Europe and left behind a complex body of evidence in relation to the crimes perpetrated during this period. The traces of the camps, ghettos and burial sites of the Holocaust remain as physical reminders of the suffering and horrors of these events. The variety of techniques and methods now available to archaeologists offer the possibility for both detailed landscape assessment and the analysis of the physical evidence from this period at microlevel. This chapter will focus specifically on the various desk-based techniques that should be considered in advance of the in-field methods outlined in Chaps. 6 and 7.

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Sturdy Colls, C. (2015). Desk-Based Investigation. In: Holocaust Archaeologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10641-0_5

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