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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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
2013
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/3184/ |