Same but different. Composition, production and use of bronze arrowheads from the Late Bronze Age deposit from Wrocław-Widawa in SW Poland

Baron, Justyna; Puziewicz, Jacek; Nowak, Kamil; Sych, Dawid; Miazga, Beata; Ziobro, Małgorzata

doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102459

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“…It therefore seems that the original sample used by Shea (2006) provided a range that covers variability in un-poisoned hunter-gatherer arrow tips across the continentsdemonstrating the importance of working with large samples to set TCSA standards. The 130 bronze arrow tips from southwest Poland may have been used in either hunting or warfare contexts (Baron et al 2020). They all have their sockets intact so that even though their shafts did not preserve, an accurate representation of their shaft diameters (directly linking to TCSA values) is present.…”

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The Tip Cross-sectional Area (TCSA) Method Strengthened and Constrained with Ethno-historical Material from Sub-Saharan Africa

Lombard

Lotter

Caruana

2022

J Archaeol Method Theory

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Work on large samples of southern African lithics, probably used to tip hunting weapons amongst other things, exposed limitations in the tip cross-sectional area method's robustness for hypothesising about variation in Stone Age/Palaeolithic weapon-delivery systems. Here we list some of the limitations and discuss a few recently published improvements in tip cross-sectional area ranges and data presentation.Our main contribution is the meaningful enlargement of datasets obtained from hafted weapon tips and/or weapon tips of known use mostly from sub-Saharan Africa. We brie y discuss why this region is relevant for studying trends in the evolution and development of hunting weapons. Our new data are used to strengthen and constrain the different TCSA ranges used as proxies for poisoned arrow tips, unpoisoned arrow tips, javelin tips, stabbing-spear tips, and to suggest a working TCSA range for thrustingspear tips. We demonstrate that the calibrated TCSA ranges have robust statistical integrity as proxies for the different weapon-delivery systems they represent. Apart from the dart-tip category, the TCSA method has now been improved to accommodate more nuanced and accurate interpretations, while further strengthening hypothesis building about ancient weapon systems.

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“…As an outgroup for un-poisoned arrow tips, we present the TCSA values of 130 Late Bronze Age socketed arrowheads(Baron et al 2020) to further test and constrain the un-poisoned arrow TCSA range. We also present the TCSA values of a few published hafted stone arrowheads from European Upper Palaeolithic contexts Lombard et al (2004).…”

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The Tip Cross-sectional Area (TCSA) Method Strengthened and Constrained with Ethno-historical Material from Sub-Saharan Africa

Lombard

Lotter

Caruana

2022

J Archaeol Method Theory

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“…4: 2c). They are located on the leaf along with the socket and are typical traces of sharpening observed on objects of similar shape (e.g., Baron et al 2020).…”

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“…The mouth of the socket is slightly bent inwards which was designed to stabilise the core in course of casting (comp. Baron et al 2020). The triangle-shaped leaf arrowheads without barbs are mostly dated to the early Urnfield period which starts roughly around 1300 BC.…”

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Flint and bronze spear and arrowheads from the Bronze and Iron Age settlement at Ruszowice in SW Poland

Baron

Hrynkiewicz-Bogenryter

2022

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We analysed a small collection of three arrowheads and one piece of spearhead. They were made of flint and metal andcome from the Bronze and Early Iron Age settlement at Ruszowice in today SW Poland. Although only one comesfrom a settlement pit, we argue they were used by the community occupying the site at the beginning of the Urnfieldperiod which starts around 1300 BC. All four objects bear clear traces of use including hafting and sharpening provingthey use in every-day life.

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“…Bronze arrowheads of similar size are known in Europe. The 134 bronze arrowheads found at the Late Bronze Age Wrocław-Widawa site in Poland had lengths ranging between 2.8 and 4.8 cm (Baron et al 2020). In China, small bronze arrowheads were also used with crossbows, which were in use by at least the fourth century BC (Wright 2005).…”

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Bronze Age Maritime and Warrior Dynamics in Island East Asia

Hudson

2022

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Recent interdisciplinary studies, combining scientific techniques such as ancient DNA analysis with humanistic re-evaluations of the transcultural value of bronze, have presented archaeologists with a fresh view of the Bronze Age in Europe. The new research emphasises long-distance connectivities and political decentralisation. 'Bronzisation' is discussed as a type of proto-globalisation. In this Element, Mark Hudson examines whether these approaches can also be applied to East Asia. Focusing primarily on Island East Asia, he analyses trade, maritime interactions and warrior culture in a comparative Eurasian framework. He argues that the international division of labour associated with Bronze Age trade provided an important stimulus to the rise of decentralised complexity in regions peripheral to alluvial states. Building on James Scott's work, the concept of the 'barbarian niche' is proposed as a way to model the longue durée of premodern Eurasian history.

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Same but different. Composition, production and use of bronze arrowheads from the Late Bronze Age deposit from Wrocław-Widawa in SW Poland

Cited by 7 publications

References 8 publications

The Tip Cross-sectional Area (TCSA) Method Strengthened and Constrained with Ethno-historical Material from Sub-Saharan Africa

The Tip Cross-sectional Area (TCSA) Method Strengthened and Constrained with Ethno-historical Material from Sub-Saharan Africa

Flint and bronze spear and arrowheads from the Bronze and Iron Age settlement at Ruszowice in SW Poland

Bronze Age Maritime and Warrior Dynamics in Island East Asia

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