The spirit of the sword and spear

From the Norse sagas or the Arthurian cycles, we are used to the concept that the warrior’s weapon has an identity, a name. In this article I shall ask whether some prehistoric weapons also had an identity. Using case studies of La Tène swords, early Iron Age central and southern Italian spearheads...

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Main Author: Pearce, Mark
Format: Article
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2013
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/3184/