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Bronze Age Combat
An experimental approach
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Abstract
1 Introduction
1.1. The Bronze Age Combat Project
1.2. Researching Combat
1.3. Metalwork wear analysis
1.4. Experimental design
1.5. From experimental design to experimental reality
1.6. The book: an overview
2 Combat Experiments in Archaeology: A Critical Review
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Previous research
2.2.1. Sword experiments
2.2.2. Spears
2.2.3. Shields
2.2.4. Halberds
2.3. Achievements and limitations of previous research
3 Approach to the Experiment and Equipment Used
3.1. Designing combat experiments: a critical approach
3.2. The equipment
3.2.1. The swords
3.2.2. The spears
3.2.3. The shields
4 Controlled Weapon Tests
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Sword vs. sword tests
4.3. Sword vs. spear tests
4.4. Sword vs. shield tests
4.4.1. Sword vs. leather shield
4.4.2. Sword vs. bronze shield
4.4.3. Sword vs. wooden shield
4.5. Spear vs. spear tests
4.6. Spear vs. shield tests
4.6.1. Spear vs. leather shield
4.6.2. Spear vs. bronze shield
4.6.3. Spear vs. wooden shield
4.7. Summary of marks
4.8. Results
4.8.1. Swords
4.8.2. Spears
4.8.3. Shields
5 Actualistic Weapon Tests
5.1. Introduction
5.2. A brief history of Historical European Martial Arts
5.3. Actualistic Weapon Tests: Concept and Design
5.4. Actualistic Weapon Tests: Planning and Execution
5.4.1. First play
5.4.2. Second play
5.4.3. Third play
5.4.4. Fourth play
5.4.5. Fifth play
5.5. Summary of marks
5.6. Results and discussion
5.6.1. Holding a Bronze Age sword
5.6.2. Interpreting combat marks
5.6.3. Attacks, defences, and blade-on-blade contact
6 Scientific Analysis of the Replica Weapons
6.1. Scientific analysis: sampling and analytical techniques
6.2. Scientific analysis: results and discussion
6.2.1. Swords and spearheads
6.2.2. Bronze shield
7 Evaluation of the Experiments and Concluding Remarks
7.1. Introduction
7.2. Evaluating the experiments
7.3. Evaluating the weapons
7.4. Future directions for research
Bibliography