Weapons and Warfare during the Bronze Age in the Area of Present-Day Latvia
Volume 8 (2007): Weapons, Weaponry and Man (In memoriam Vytautas Kazakevičius), pp. 32–38
Pub. online: 9 November 2007
Type: Article
Open Access
Received
6 January 2006
6 January 2006
Revised
3 May 2007
3 May 2007
Published
9 November 2007
9 November 2007
Abstract
A characteristic of the Bronze Age in the area of present-day Latvia was a fairly wide range of bronze, stone and bone weapons. The possibility of military clashes, too, is indicated by the building of fortified residential sites, hill-forts. A whole corpus of evidence testifies to the new way of life adopted by the elite of Bronze Age society, where the ideology of warfare also played a certain role.