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Is a Warrior without a Weapon not a Warrior? Some Ideas about Bronze Age Warfare in the Eastern Baltic Region
Volume 8 (2007): Weapons, Weaponry and Man (In memoriam Vytautas Kazakevičius), pp. 39–46
Agnė Čivilytė  

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Pub. online: 9 November 2007      Type: Article      Open accessOpen Access

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29 May 2007
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24 July 2007
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9 November 2007

Abstract

Bronze weapons hint not only at the intensity and effectiveness of warfare in particular societies, but, even more, they may reveal the identity of warriors as a separate group within society. Over most of Europe weaponry is one of the important categories of material culture, although in some regions, like the Eastern Baltic, bronze weapons are a real rarity. There is no doubt that people fought wars here, but instead of bronze weapons they effectively used stone, bone or wooden weapons. Because of the scarcity of bronze weapons, defensive settlements, such as those known from Central and Southeast Europe, and warrior graves, warfare cannot be seen as an organizational principle of social ties per se. There is no reason to assume the existence of retinues or warrior aristocracies as fundamental social units in the Eastern Baltic. However, warfare or war ideology without the existence of the warrior as a social layer is simply inconceivable.

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warrior identity bronze weapons warfare war ideology bronze deposition ritual

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