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Warfare in Bronze Age society /
"In this book, it is argued that the Bronze Age represents the global emergence of a militarized society with a martial culture, materialized in a package of new efficient weapons that remained in use for millennia to come. It is evidenced in the ostentatious display of weapons in burials and h...
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Cambridge University Press,
2018
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introducing Bronze Age warfare / Christian Horn and Kristian Kristiansen
- 2. Bronze Age encounters : violent or peaceful? / Anthony Harding
- 3. Warfare and the political economy : Europe 1500-1100 BC / Kristian Kristiansen
- 4. Warfare vs. exchange? : thoughts on an integrative approach / Christian Horn
- 5. Maritime warfare in Scandinavian rock art / Johan Ling and Andreas Toreld
- 6. Bronze weaponry and cultural mobility in Late Bronze Age southeast Europe / Barry Molloy
- 7. The emergence of specialized combat weapons in the Levantine Bronze Age / Florian Klimscha
- 8. Beyond the grave : crafting identities in the middle Bronze Age Southern Trans Urals / Derek Pitman and Roger Doonan
- 9. Carp's tongue swords and their use : functional, technological, and morphological aspects / Marc Gener
- 10. Warfare or sacrifice? : archaeological research on the Bronze Age site in the Tollense Valley, Northeast Germany / Gundula Lidke, Ute Brinker, Detlef Jantzen, Anne Dombrowsky, Jana Drager, Joachim Kruger and Thomas Terberger
- 11. Violence and ritual in Late Bronze Age Britain : weapon depositions and their interpretation / Tobias Mortz
- 12. "Warrior graves" vs. warrior graves in the Bronze Age Aegean / Ioannis Georganas
- 13. The Chief and his sword? : some thoughts on the swordbearer's rank in the early Nordic Bronze Age / Jan-Heinrich Bunnefeld
- 14. Becoming the warrior : constructed identity or functional identity? / Kate Anderson
- 15. Body aesthetics, fraternity, and warfare in the long European Bronze Age : postscriptum / Helle Vandkilde.