Middle Iron Age warfare of the hillfort dominated zone c. 400 BC to c. 150 BC
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Middle Iron Age warfare of the hillfort dominated zone c. 400 BC to c. 150 BC
(BAR British series, 423)
Archaeopress, 2006
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Note
Originally presented as a thesis (Ph.D.)--Bournemouth University, 2005
Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-168)
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Description
Oxbow says: This study re-evaluates many of the misconceptions about the war-crazed Iron Age warrior hero, and questions anew the role of hillforts as truly, or primarily, defensive structures. Taking a regional approach to Middle Iron Age warfare, Finney examines hillforts and weaponry from lowland Britain. Much use is made of ethnographic parallels in placing weaponry in a social context, with case studies from medieval Ireland, Late Geometric/Early Archaic GReece, Early Iron Age Israel and Late Intermediate Peru. Experimental work and mathematical models are devised for the use of the sling and spearhead and a new model for Middle Iron Age warfare is proposed.
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