Conflict archaeology is a sub-discipline within archaeology

Archaeology

Archaeology, or archeology , is the study of human society, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data that they have left behind, which includes artifacts, architecture, biofacts and cultural landscapes...

 focused on intergroup and intragroup conflict. Closely linked to battlefield archaeology

Battlefield archaeology

Battlefield archaeology is a sub-discipline of archaeology that began in North America with Dr. Douglas D. Scott's, National Park Service, metal detecting of in 1983...

 and Military Sites Archaeology, conflict archaeology is developing as an umbrella sub-discipline that encompasses these others, allowing for greater epistemological elasticity than other terms.

Conflict archaeology is most strongly followed by some historical archaeologists in the United States

United States

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 and archaeologists of all time periods in Europe

Europe

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. Significant studies of conflict in North America

North America

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predating the arrival of Europeans has been done, but these works are largely situated within regional, not thematic literature.