Militarism and the Indo-Europeanizing of Europe - Robert Drews
obsidian arrowheads, bronze axes, daggers, rapiers, and socketed spearheads.^158 A find especially informative about warfare was ...
Other data comes from the excavations that for more than 30 years Hakob Simonyan has been conducting at Nerkin Naver (“Lower Nav ...
no evidence other than some questions raised by the “Anitta text,” which dates from ca. 1740 BC. The beginning of swordsmanship ...
Figure 3.3South Caucasian dirk and rapiers. 1) Saduga, Kurgan grave no. 2. 2) Mravaltskali, Kurgan grave no. 12. 3) Lilo, Kurgan ...
was concerned, Bouzek commented that “Kuftin and some other Georgian and Russian archaeologists date these swords to the 18th ce ...
quite like those of the rapiers: it has a high midrib and is hilted with a single rivet hole in the tang. It was discovered in 1 ...
makes the south Caucasian rapiers earlier than those from the Aegean and Byblos. With their very rudimentary (single rivet) hilt ...
infrequently, the thrusting spear had largely although not entirely replaced the axe. The socketed spear was standard in the Nea ...
donkeys). Each cart had a shield in front, a driver, and a warrior armed with spears. The carts may have shaken the opposing pha ...
données sur l’utilisation militaire du char sont absentes de la documentation visuelle et ne sont pas non plus explicites pour c ...
described, they are sometimes an attempt to drive off a besieging army. In this sense it may be that Middle Bronze warfare in Me ...
66 According to McLeod 1965, p. 14, experiments showed that “the best ranges attained by wooden self bows were 170–210 yards (15 ...
85 Schofield 2007, p. 30. 86 Manning 1986, p. 286; Gauss 2010, p. 745. 87 The rhyton portrays a battle taking place between a fo ...
floor of House E in the MH II level. See also Borchhardt 1972, pp. 19 and 32 (labeled 4 V in Borchhardt’s Katalog). 102 On the d ...
that the blade was fixed to the wooden shaft not only by a tang that went four or five cm deep into the shaft (and was usually f ...
128 Harding 2000, p. 285, in discussing the earliest evidence for shields, cites a burial in Bush Barrow near Stonehenge (fragme ...
146 Anthony et al. 2005, p. 412, calculate that at least eighteen dogs were butchered. The dog bones show skinning and dismember ...
casian chariot originated in Syria and Mesopotamia, that it did not arrive in southern Caucasia until ca. 1400 BC, and that char ...
Figs. 226 and 227. Schaeffer concluded that the Lankaran rapiers dated ca. 1500–1450 BC, and were degenerate copies of swords fr ...
4 Chariot warfare, the beginning of militarism and its Indo- European connection Many aspects of the chariot revolution are now ...
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