276 Index
Avila, Robert 80–81, 192, 196, 198
axes 72, 87–88, 90, 136; disk-butted
150–152, 157; in southern Scandinavia
157–158; see alsobattle-axes
axles 19, 62, 99n
Ayia Irini 76, 79, 81, 186
Ayn Sokhna 202
Azerbaijan 92
Babylon 73
Bader, Tiberiu 147–148
Bahdi-Lim 46
Bal’ki 16
Baltic languages 19–21
Banu-Yamina 70
Bashkortostan 217, 218
Basque 24n, 133
Bass, George 202
Battini, Laura 61
battle-axes 82, 83
Battle-Axe culture seeCorded Ware
culture
Beal, Richard 117
Beckman, Gary 116–117
Begash 36
Bell Beaker culture 4, 20, 82, 135
Benveniste, Émile 110
Berikldeebi 224
Biainili 228
Bianco Peroni, Vera 162–163
Biecz helmet 155, 200
Bietak, Manfred 236
Bietti Sestieri, Anna 164–165
Bitlis-Zagros mountains 114, 225, 226
bits: invention of 36–37, 39, 41–44;
Hyksos 43, 48, 120; iron 91;
jointed snaffle 30, 42, 48–49, 224;
see alsoantler tine cheekpieces and
organic disk cheekpieces
“Black Sea Flood” 12
Blegen, Carl 182, 192
BMAC culture 19, 141, 226
Boest 158
Boghazköy 122
Bohuslän 159
Boiotia 180, 187
Boiu-Keszthely sword seeswords
Bolduţ 140
Borchhardt, Jürgen 103n
borchie 166
Boroffka, Nikolaus 132, 142, 143–144
Bosch-Gimpera, Pedro 124
Botai 33, 36
Botan (Kentrites) river 227, 228
Bourgarit, David 136
Bouzek, Jan 92, 94
bows 62–63, 81; self 73, 88; composite
63f, 73, 88, 89, 100n, 111, 115,
193–194; in LH Greece 190–194; in
Sintashta culture 88,89; range of 101n,
115; Greek words for 193
Branigan, Keith 75, 78, 80, 92
Braudel, Fernand 56, 124
Brauron 179
Britain 81, 136, 189, 204
Brittany 136–137
Broodbank, Cyprian 7
Brown, Dorcas 31, 86
Bryce, Trevor 118
Buchholz, Hans-Günter 190, 192–193,
194, 211n
Buck, Robert 80
Buhen horse 119–120
Burke, Aaron 61, 65, 67, 68, 73
Byblos 78–79, 94, 96Cardarelli, Andrea 162, 166
Carian, Carians 10, 176
Carman, John 58
Carruba, Onofrio 10
carts 19, 25n, 41
Caskey, John 176
Casson, Lionel 204
castellieri 84
Castione dei Marchesi 167
Çatal Höyük 6
Catling, Hector 221
cavalier figurines seerider figurines
cavalry 30
Cetea workshop 144
Chadwick, John 121
Chagar Bazar 46, 114, 225
chariot archers 88, 91, 109, 111–112, 114,
115, 118
chariot kraters 142, 185–186, 190
chariot warfare: beginning of 88, 91, 111,
114–115; crew 114, 191; use in sieges
115, 117–118; in Anatolia 115–119;
in Egypt 119–121; in India 111–112;
in China 191
chariot yoke ornaments 221–222
chariots 40, 46–49, 88–89, 90; invention
of 42–45; as funeral vehicles 44–45; as
infantry taxis 60, 188–190; Hittite 113,
189; at Troy 181–182; used in hunting
47, 114, 116–117; used for rustling
(raiding) 47–48; in Carpathian basin
141–146; in Greece 185–188; in Italy