More information: V. Gentile et al, Multi-stage experiments in Bronze Age spear combat: insights on wear formation, trauma, and combat contexts, Journal of Archaeological Science (2024). DOI: 10. ...

For this reason, the team constructed replicas of Bronze Age spears and used them in realistic combat scenarios to see how the spearheads reacted against metal blades, wooden shafts and shields.

The archaeologists have also discovered that Bronze Age Britons also had a penchant for a different type of fabric ... So far, around 50 bronze axes, sickles, spears, swords, ...

That couldn’t be further from the truth, according to these scientists who recreated some just to prove the point. Bronze Age weapons were made from a copper-tin alloy (bronze, duh), which is ...

Amid highway construction, archaeologists uncovered a 3,000-year-old Late Bronze Age settlement and cremation cemetery, as announced by the Suffolk City Council in the United Kingdom.

2,000-year-old statues discovered that archaeologists say could "rewrite history" 01:00 Skeletal remains and skull fragments of two Bronze Age women were found at a construction site in the U.K.

A new analysis of arrowheads at a Bronze Age site in Germany shows that local warriors clashed with an army from the south 3,250 years ago.

Did Bronze Age Europe have a market economy? New research suggests “hoard piles” could be linked to the exchange of small pieces of metal – much like money changes hands today.

The Suffolk City Council described the site as a “Late Bronze Age settlement and cremation cemetery” that dates back 3,000 years; they shared the information in a press release dated mid-April.

The aftermath of an “exceptionally violent” attack in early Bronze Age England suggests that at least 37 people may have been “systematically dismembered” and eaten, new research has revealed.

The bioarchaeological investigation of the Bronze Age cemetery of Tiszafüred-Majoroshalom has shed new light on an important period in Central European history.

More information: V. Gentile et al, Multi-stage experiments in Bronze Age spear combat: insights on wear formation, trauma, and combat contexts, Journal of Archaeological Science (2024). DOI: 10. ...