Bronze age warfare
Subtitle: manufacture and use of weaponry
By: edited by Marion Uckelmann, Marianne Mödlinger
Contributors: International Workshop on Warfare in Bronze Age Europe; European Association of Archaeologists. Meeting
Series: BAR international series -- 2255; BAR international series -- 2255.
Publisher: Archaeopress
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9781407308227
Subjects: Ancient Weapons; Bronze age; Congresses
Description: Introduction / Marianne Mödlinger, Marion Uckelmann and Steven Matthews -- The smith's approach. Spearheads and swords - the making of bronze objects / Markus Binggeli -- Halberds. Use-wear on Bronze Age halberds: the case of Iberia / Dirk Brandherm -- Ceremonial or deadly serious? New insights into the function of Irish early Bronze Age halberds / Ronan O'Flaherty, Michael D. Gilchrist and Trevor Cowie -- Deliberate destruction of halberds / Christian Horn -- Swords. Use-wear analysis and use-patterns of Bronze Age swords / Barry Molloy -- Chelsea and Ballintober swords: typology, chronology and use / Steven Matthews -- Irish swords: use and abuse / Ian Colquhoun -- Integrating form, function and technology in ancient swords. The concept of quality / Marc Gener -- Slash and stab: some remakrs on the manufacture, function and deposition of carp's-tongue swords (summary) / Dirk Brandherm and Magdalena Moskal-del Hoyo --^

The discovery of a new Tachlovice sword at Pont-sur-Seine, Aube, France / Sylvie Boulud-Gazo -- Swords and new analysis methods. Ritual object or powerful weapon - the usage of central Europe Bronze Age swords / Marianne Mödlinger -- Neutron resonance capture analysis and the Bronze Age / Hans Postma, Peter Schillebeeckx and Marianne Mödlinger -- Bow and arrow. The Sintasha bow of the Bronze Age of the south Trans-Urals, Russia / Andrey Bersenev, Andrey Epimakhov and Dmitry Zdanovich -- Shields. The function of Bronze Age shields / Marion Uckelmann -- Metallurgical and archaeological investigations on the Macedonian shields of Staro Bonče (3rd century BC) / Paolo Piccardo and Dusko Temelkoski -- Abstracts form the workshop in Vienna 2009. The results of the x-rays examination of swords from Poland [abstract] / Michał Bugaj -- 'By weapons made worthy"? Production, use and deposition of Bronze Age weaponry [abstract] / David Fontijn --^

Metal alloy and texture analysis of Bronze Age swords by neutron diffraction [abstract] / Evelyne Godfrey, Winfried Kockelmann and Marianne Mödlinger -- Late Bronze Age crested helmets in the Eastern Alps [abstract] / Andreas Lippert -- Weapons grade bronze [abstract] / Peter Northover -- Computed tomography for the 3D analysis of metallic archaeological findings [abstract] / Dietmar Salaberger and Johann Kastner -- Examples of imagery in ornamentation on late Bronze Age weapons [abstract] / Stefan Wirth -- Studies on the production and function of late Bronze Age swords [abstract] / Michael Siedlaczek -- Abstracts from the session at the 15th EAA Annual Meeting in Riva Del Garda 2009. Experimental comparison of spearheads use-wear analysis [abstract] / Kate Anderson -- Halberds and red herrings. Weaponry and warfare in the earlier Bronze Age of southeast Spain [abstract] / Dirk Brandherm ... [et al.] --^

Weapons or tools? Insights into the usage of metalwork in Copper Age Italy [abstract] / Andrea Dolfini -- The spirit of the sword and the spear [abstract] / Mark Pearce.
Notes: "This volume presents the outcome of two meetings: the international workshop on Warfare in Bronze Age Europe: manufacture and use of weaponry, an interdisciplinary research on technology and utilisation of archaeological finds, held in Vienna ... from the 30th October to 1st November 2009 and the session New approaches on studying weaponry of the European bronze age held at the 15th annual meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) in Riva del Garda, Italy, on the 17th September 2009"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Marianne Mödlinger, Marion Uckelmann and Steven Matthews; title: The smith's approach. Spearheads and swords - the making of bronze objects / Markus Binggeli; title: Halberds. Use-wear on Bronze Age halberds: the case of Iberia / Dirk Brandherm; title: Ceremonial or deadly serious? New insights into the function of Irish early Bronze Age halberds / Ronan O'Flaherty, Michael D. Gilchrist and Trevor Cowie; title: Deliberate destruction of halberds / Christian Horn; title: Swords. Use-wear analysis and use-patterns of Bronze Age swords / Barry Molloy; title: Chelsea and Ballintober swords: typology, chronology and use / Steven Matthews; title: Irish swords: use and abuse / Ian Colquhoun; title: Integrating form, function and technology in ancient swords. The concept of quality / Marc Gener; title: Slash and stab: some remakrs on the manufacture, function and deposition of carp's-tongue swords (summary) / Dirk Brandherm and Magdalena Moskal-del Hoyo; title: The discovery of a new Tachlovice sword at Pont-sur-Seine, Aube, France / Sylvie Boulud-Gazo; title: Swords and new analysis methods. Ritual object or powerful weapon - the usage of central Europe Bronze Age swords / Marianne Mödlinger; title: Neutron resonance capture analysis and the Bronze Age / Hans Postma, Peter Schillebeeckx and Marianne Mödlinger; title: Bow and arrow. The Sintasha bow of the Bronze Age of the south Trans-Urals, Russia / Andrey Bersenev, Andrey Epimakhov and Dmitry Zdanovich; title: Shields. The function of Bronze Age shields / Marion Uckelmann; title: Metallurgical and archaeological investigations on the Macedonian shields of Staro Bonče (3rd century BC) / Paolo Piccardo and Dusko Temelkoski; title: Abstracts form the workshop in Vienna 2009. The results of the x-rays examination of swords from Poland [abstract] / Michał Bugaj; title: 'By weapons made worthy"? Production, use and deposition of Bronze Age weaponry [abstract] / David Fontijn; title: Metal alloy and texture analysis of Bronze Age swords by neutron diffraction [abstract] / Evelyne Godfrey, Winfried Kockelmann and Marianne Mödlinger; title: Late Bronze Age crested helmets in the Eastern Alps [abstract] / Andreas Lippert; title: Weapons grade bronze [abstract] / Peter Northover; title: Computed tomography for the 3D analysis of metallic archaeological findings [abstract] / Dietmar Salaberger and Johann Kastner; title: Examples of imagery in ornamentation on late Bronze Age weapons [abstract] / Stefan Wirth; title: Studies on the production and function of late Bronze Age swords [abstract] / Michael Siedlaczek; title: Abstracts from the session at the 15th EAA Annual Meeting in Riva Del Garda 2009. Experimental comparison of spearheads use-wear analysis [abstract] / Kate Anderson; title: Halberds and red herrings. Weaponry and warfare in the earlier Bronze Age of southeast Spain [abstract] / Dirk Brandherm ... [et al.]; title: Weapons or tools? Insights into the usage of metalwork in Copper Age Italy [abstract] / Andrea Dolfini; title: The spirit of the sword and the spear [abstract] / Mark Pearce.