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

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Most of the burials with horses containing edged weapons are dated to the


Late phase and are located on the northern periphery of the Carpathian Basin,


while similar burial customs in the Early phase were mainly characteristic for


the Great Hungarian Plain.


DIAGRAM 14 Correlation of polearms and edged weapons with burials with horses.

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DIAGRAM 15 The chronological distribution of edged weapons from burials with horse.

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