Militarism and the Indo-Europeanizing of Europe - Robert Drews

Dendra corselet: that panoply weighed at least 15 kg, and its plates extended to mid-thigh and would have prevented the wearer f ...

Grave stelae) show chariots in military action of any kind. For that, we must therefore look elsewhere. In the Near East, as is ...

Drews to associate chariotry and archery in Mycenaean times is the fact that quite a few Linear B tablets at Knossos were found ...

Here Buchholz presented in detail the archaeological and documentary evidence both for chariots and for bows and arrows in LH Gr ...

manufacture. Ideograms on Linear B tablets of the Mc class at Knossos show that the palace acquired goat horns, and because thes ...

Swords The new militarism was displayed most conspicuously in swords. A schematic graph drawn by Barry Molloy shows dramatically ...

women were at different times buried in Grave IV, and there is no telling how many swords were deposited with the burial of each ...

Figure 6.1Evolution of the sword, and chronological range of sword types, in Mycenaean Greece. From Molloy 2010, Figure 2. Court ...

as formidable as any known from the ancient world. The Type II were evidently in use from the end of the MH through the LH I per ...

of Lang, Leaf and Myers, “climbing up aloft, from the black ships, with long pikes that they had lying in the ships for battle a ...

those plates had been sewn to clothes covering the chest or the thighs, but some had evidently been sewn to headgear. In the Neo ...

only an Ajax could carry it. Both the tower and the figure-of-eight shields would have been far too cumbersome to have been of a ...

the Sc tablets were found in the “Room of the Chariot Tablets” at Knossos, and because many of them are inscribed with ideograms ...

crew of twenty-four rowers. It is approximately 20 m long, can carry a cargo of 17 tons, and moves at slightly more than 6 knots ...

Although the evidence is slim, I think we may conclude that if Neolithic boatmen were able to carry cattle from Anatolia to Cret ...

horse-transport.^133 Less dubious is a painting in Paheri’s tomb at El Kab, which shows a ship carrying, among other things, a t ...

A conquest such as this must have had a prologue: the intruders, that is, must have known something about the Greek mainland and ...

For very brief statements of the absence of evidence for wheeled vehicles in Greece prior to the Shaft Graves see Childe 1951, p ...

23 Davis 2010, p. 683: The first true tholos tomb that survives intact in Messenia is unprepossessing and dates to the final pha ...

very close to the surface and therefore much disturbed and containing almost no grave goods. The Troy VI cremation cemetery that ...