[HTML][HTML] Bronze age swordsmanship: New insights from experiments and wear analysis

R Hermann, A Dolfini, RJ Crellin, Q Wang… - … Method and Theory, 2020 - Springer
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 …

The organisation and practice of metal smithing in Later Bronze Age Europe

B Molloy, M Mödlinger - Journal of World Prehistory, 2020 - Springer
Abstract During the later Bronze Age in Europe (c. 1500–800 BC), the archaeological
visibility of the production and consumption of bronze increases substantially. Yet there …

[PDF][PDF] Evidence of social re-organization and reconstruction in Late Helladic IIIC Achaea and modes of contacts and exchange via the Ionian and Adriatic Sea

I Moschos - Dall'Egeo all'Adriatico organizzazioni sociali, modi di …, 2009 - academia.edu
3 Il. B 198-204 and 569-580; Θ 203; ANDERSoN 1954, p. 72; HoPE SIMPSoN, LAZENBy
1970, pp. 69, 98; PAPADoPoULoS 1991a, pp. 32, 36; PAPAZoGLoU-MANIoUDAKI 1998, p …

Conflict at Europe's crossroads: Analysing the social life of metal weaponry in the Bronze Age Balkans

B Molloy - Prehistoric warfare and violence: quantitative and …, 2018 - Springer
This paper explores the character of weaponry from the western and central Balkan
Peninsula, a region that constitutes a crossroad between Aegean and Urnfield Bronze Age …

[PDF][PDF] ARCHEOMETALLURGICAL STUDY OF BRONZE ARTEFACTS (FROM III BC TO VI AD) EXCAVATED ALONG ALBANIAN COASTLINE.

O Çakaj, N Civici, G Schmidt, E Qoku - Scientific Culture, 2023 - sci-cult.com
In this paper we studied different types of copper/copper alloy objects (luxury, tools and
exchange objects) excavated in Durrës (ancient city of Epidamnos, Dyrrah) and Ploçë (near …

Bronze weaponry and cultural mobility in Late Bronze Age southeast Europe

B Molloy - Warfare in Bronze Age Society, 2018 - books.google.com
T he collapse of the bronze age palatial centres in the Aegean transformed the societies
surrounding the palaces and unbalanced the relationship between these areas and those …

Urnfield Bronze Connections: Rethinking Late Bronze Age Mobility

R FALCHETI PEIXOTO, F Iacono - Ocnus, 2022 - cris.unibo.it
IIn this paper after a thorough critical review of existing theories about mobility, we try to put
together a new, original theoretical and methodological perspective that integrates the …

Naue II-Schwerter mit Knaufzunge und die Außenbeziehungen der mykenischen Kriegerelite in postpalatialer Zeit

S PabSt - Jahrbuch des Römisch-Germanischen …, 2013 - journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de
In dem Beitrag wird eine spezifische Gruppe der gemeineuropäischen Griffzungenschwerter
der Form Naue II untersucht, deren Vertreter sich speziell durch einen zungenförmigen …

Neutron diffraction analyses of Bronze Age swords from the Alpine region: benchmarking neutron diffraction against laboratory methods

M Mödlinger, E Godfrey, W Kockelmann - Journal of Archaeological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Bronze Age swords represent the peak of craftsmanship in terms of prehistoric weapon
production. Following an extensive study on the manufacture and usage of Bronze Age …

Development of an optimized NDT methodology for the investigation of ancient greek copper-based artifacts

AC Saint, V Dritsa, M Koui - Corrosion and Materials Degradation, 2021 - mdpi.com
A multi-analytical non-destructive testing (NDT) methodology was applied to copper-based
artifacts originated from various archaeological sites of Greece. X-ray fluorescence (XRF) …