Researching Bronze Age Swordsmanship:

Hermann, Raphael; Dolfini, Andrea; Crellin, Rachel J.; Uckelmann, Marion

doi:10.2307/j.ctvfrxrbx.21

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“…Until 2000's, papers, books and other works have mainly dealt about experimental archaeology on Bronze Age weapons [14][15][16]; inventory, distribution and chronology of Bronze Ages weapons [17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]. There is an immediate interest for the Bronze Age weapons in the UK for several volumes of the monumental series "Prahistorische Bronzefunde" [26], for the volumes belonging tothe "Typologie des objects de l' Âge du Bronze en France" [27], as well as for other single works [28] on circulation and development of the weapons [29][30][31][32] on regional context [33,34]: work by Osgood didn't have much information on the use of weapons and has been criticized for a too enthusiastic interpretation in start of the British hill forts and some inconsistencies in interpretation of the Early Bronze Age social aspect of warfare [35] ( l'ultimo period non si capisce).…”

Section: Warfare In European Bronze Age a State Of Questionmentioning

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Bronze Age Warfare in Barbaric Europe - Current Trends and Perspectives in the Future

Delfino¹

2018

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Research on prehistoric warfare is in progress since 60 years. But investigation specifically on Bronze Age period, when some tools are exclusively created for fight and the warrior societies are emerging, is always young. Scholars there were mainly interested on the origins of violence in mankind, on the fighting in the Neolithic or, if Bronze Age, on the wars in the empires of the Near East or in the Minoan civilization. But the warfare in the European Bronze Age up to a decade ago, it was dealt marginally. Violence and warfare in Bronze Age in "barbarian Europe", to use an expression by Jaques Briard, can be defined as a "fashion" since the mid-2000s. Recent trends are analyzed according to various perspectives: generals, theoretical, study of material cultures and context, and interpretative tendencies. So will be discuss what the commonly accepted theories and what also remain subject of doubt and debate to draw a perspective for the future.

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Section: Warfare In European Bronze Age a State Of Questionmentioning

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Bronze Age Warfare in Barbaric Europe - Current Trends and Perspectives in the Future

Delfino¹

2018

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“…Further data and reflections concerning the Bronze Age Combat Project are published (or will be published) elsewhere. In particular, Hermann et al (2019) outline project aims and structure; Crellin et al (2018) critique the experimental methodology; and Hermann et al (2020) provide an unabridged account of all weapon experiments. The spear and shield tests (and related MWA) will be discussed in Crellin et al (in preparation) and Uckelmann et al (in preparation).…”

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Bronze Age Swordsmanship: New Insights from Experiments and Wear Analysis

Hermann

Dolfini

Crellin

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The article presents a new picture of sword fighting in Middle and Late Bronze Age Europe developed through the Bronze Age Combat Project. The project investigated the uses of Bronze Age swords, shields, and spears by combining integrated experimental archaeology and metalwork wear analysis. The research is grounded in an explicit and replicable methodology providing a blueprint for future experimentation with, and wear analysis of, prehistoric copper-alloy weapons. We present a four-step experimental methodology including both controlled and actualistic experiments. The experimental results informed the wear analysis of 110 Middle and Late Bronze Age swords from Britain and Italy. The research has generated new understandings of prehistoric combat, including diagnostic and undiagnostic combat marks and how to interpret them; how to hold and use a Bronze Age sword; the degree of skill and training required for proficient combat; the realities of Bronze Age swordplay including the frequency of blade-on-blade contact; the body parts and areas targeted by prehistoric sword fencers; and the evolution of fighting styles in Britain and Italy from the late 2nd to the early 1st millennia BC. All primary data discussed in the article are available as supplementary material (Appendix) so as to allow scrutiny and validation of the research results.

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Researching Bronze Age Swordsmanship:

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Bronze Age Warfare in Barbaric Europe - Current Trends and Perspectives in the Future

Bronze Age Warfare in Barbaric Europe - Current Trends and Perspectives in the Future

Bronze Age Swordsmanship: New Insights from Experiments and Wear Analysis

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