Ancient Rus Star-Shaped Mace Heads From the Collection of the National Museum of History of Ukraine
Journal: Arheologia
Year: 2019

Development of a maces production in Ancient Rus can be traced during the 12th—13th&nbsp;centuries, when the cast bronze hollow mace-heads appeared, having not only military but also a status function. Star-shaped maces were the most vivid examples of such manufacture.The paper deals with the comparison of different typological schemes of the Ancient Rus maces. The position of regarding of all the Ancient Rus star-shaped maces as one main form and consider them as one type divided into four subt