Avar-Age Polearms and Edged Weapons. Classification, Typology, Chronology and Technology

288 CHAPTER 3 Origins and cultural contacts of the above enlisted suspension loops will be described in chapter VI.1 in detail. ...

Edged Weapons 289 The chronological changes of these various blade types is shown in the follow- ing diagram. The Early phase is ...

290 CHAPTER 3 increased during this phase, based on the increase in their number, coinciding with the development of broad seaxe ...

Edged Weapons 291 as hilt coverings, crossguards, decoration of the scabbard or suspension loops, were subject to much more freq ...

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Technology—manufacturing Techniques 293 Institute of Archaeological Science (VIAS), founded by Falko Daim, and a proj- ect finan ...

294 CHAPTER 4 cost and the destructive nature of the sampling methods.12 In spite of the small size of the sample the variabilit ...

Technology—manufacturing Techniques 295 mean that they could no longer be used as weapons. Moreover, secondary burning also leav ...

296 CHAPTER 4 bloomers did not carbonize the pig-iron by its casting.25 All the data above (low carbon content and ferrite-pearl ...

Technology—manufacturing Techniques 297 The pattern welding of the spatha blades in early medieval Europe was a common technique ...

298 CHAPTER 4 only characteristic of spathae but can also be observed on other double-edged swords. Single-edged swords of the E ...

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300 CHAPTER 5 earlier periods (like the age of Gepid and Lombard kingdoms of the early 6th century) did survive the Avar conques ...

Chronology—continuity And Discontinuity 301 fig. 61) were also used. Double-edged swords with crossguards can be regarded as an ...

302 CHAPTER 5 3 Early Avar II. (610–650) The Early Avar period marks significant changes in its material culture with the format ...

Chronology—continuity And Discontinuity 303 The number of spearheads drastically decreased during the Middle phase, with the typ ...

304 CHAPTER 5 New types of polearms appeared with this change: reed-shaped spearheads with broad shoulder (P.I.D, fig. 29), spea ...

Chronology—continuity And Discontinuity 305 In conjunction with the decreasing number of male burials with belt-sets, the number ...

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Origins And Cultural Contacts 307 became part of the Eastern Bloc which also led to a greater emphasis on Slavic archaeology, th ...