Code
01N04218
Duration
01 January 2018 → 31 December 2021
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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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.