Acknowledgements
I expect that this book will interest military historians who deal with the ancient
world, but it is addressed more directly to Indo-Europeanists, Assyriologists,
Egyptologists, Hittitologists, Mycenologists and Archaeologists who work in
widely separated lands. Because I am not expert in any of those disciplines I have
relied heavily on what specialists have written, as the bibliography will show.
Publications do not answer all questions, and many scholars with whom I
exchanged e-mails have given me personal and timely help. Let me here thank
Mikheil Abramishvili, Constantin Alamariu, David Anthony, Vassilis Aravantinos,
Richard Beal, Nikolaus Boroffka, Anne Chapin, Michele Cupitò, Andrej
Epimakhov, Andrew Garrett, Anthony Harding, Christian Horn, Maria Ivanova,
Mario Küssner, Lene Melheim, Carola Metzner-Nebelsick, Barry Molloy, Martin
O’Collins, Thomas Palaima, Mitchell Rothman, Karen Rubinson, Hakob
Simonyan, Adam Smith, Felix-Adrian Tencariu, Peter Tóth, Aleydis Van de
Moortel and Michael Witzel. Especially helpful were the three anonymous readers
who pointed out some of the errors and omissions in the original draft.
Thanks also to Jim Toplon and his Interlibrary Loan staff at the Vanderbilt library
for their persistence and ingenuity in locating exotic publications. Securing
suitable images for publication, along with permissions to publish them, is a
frustrating business. For assistance there I am grateful to the persons mentioned
in the captions, and also to Brigitte Badelt at the Franz Steiner Verlag, Lucretiu
Birliba (Studia Antiqua et Archaeologica), Brian Collins (Oxford Journal
of Archaeology), Rudolf Echt (Saarbrücker Beiträge zur Altertumskunde), Lone
Klint Jakobsen at the National Museum of Denmark, Albrecht Jockenhövel
(Prähistorische Bronzefunde) and Lyudmil Vagalinski (Archaeologia Bulgarica).
And thanks to Millie Fullmer, Director of Visual Resources at Vanderbilt
University, for scanning images from print.