Partisans, Guerillas, and Irregulars: Historical Archaeology of Asymmetric Warfare presents recent examples of how historical archaeology can contribute to a better understanding of asymmetric warfare. The volume introduces readers to this growing study and to its historic importance. Contributors illustrate how the wide range of traditional and new methods and techniques of historiography and archaeology can be applied to expose critical actions, sacrifices, and accomplishments of competing groups representing opposing philosophies and ways of life, which are otherwise lost in time--back cover.

Introduction: an archaeology of asymmetric warfare / Steven D. Smith -- Border warfare in Revolutionary Era West Virginia / W. Stephen McBride and Kim A. McBride -- "Foot Jagers forward!": Johann Ewald, petite guerre, and the archaeology of the Battle of Cooch's Bridge / Wade P. Catts -- The battle of Williamson's Plantation: Huck's defeat and the asymmetric partisan war in the South Carolina backcountry / Michael C. Scoggins and Steven D. Smith -- Francis Marion's partisan community / Steven D. Smith -- KOCOA considerations in asymmetric warfare: education and environment in the Second Seminole War, 1835-1842 / Michelle Sivilich -- The Black Jack Battle of 1856 in Kansas: asymmetric warfare and archaeological investigations / Douglas D. Scott -- Jayhawkers, bushwhackers, and lay-out gangs: archaeology and asymmetric warfare in the Trans-Mississippi Confederate home front during the American Civil War / Carl G. Drexler -- "Dirty little wars" in Northern Mexico and the American Southwest / Charles M. Haecker -- The Hatfield-McCoy Feud as asymmetric warfare: archaeology at the Randall and Sally McCoy Homestead / Kim A. McBride -- A Ukrainian insurgent army company ambush of a Soviet NKVD Battalion, 1945: a -- Multidisciplinary study / Adrian Mandzy -- Conclusion: reflections on the historical archaeology of asymmetric warfare / Clarence R. Geier.