Project

A technological study of Bronze Age full-hilted swords in the Benelux and France in their European context

Code
01N04218
Duration
01 January 2018 → 31 December 2021
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Archaeology of the Low countries or Belgium
    • Material culture studies
    • Protohistoric archaeology
    • Archaeology not elsewhere classified
Keywords
Bronze Age Sword Metal craft Craftsmanship Technological innovations Trade Transfers Mobility
 
Project description

Thanks to new techniques such as CT-scan, it is now possible to perform high precision observations on and inside Bronze Age weapons to determine specific technical and typological features. Identifying these cultural components on a large corpus of solid-hilted swords will help approaching certain aspects of Bronze Age societies such as workshop’s organization, trade, mobility or transfers through Europe.