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OverviewOne day, sometime around 1700 BC, a bronzesmith made the first sword. This marked a technological turning point, giving rise to an arms race that has never since ceased. Soon, over a vast area between the Baltic Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, thousands of weapons were manufactured. They were used in combat, then laid to rest, whole or broken, often during complex rituals that are still hard for us to understand. Through the sword, the Bronze Age brought war into being. The warrior became an important figure. Societies were transformed, and came to revolve politically and economically around warfare. Western Europe developed new social structures, a new kind of civilisation involving neither towns, nor writing. By tackling the subject 'a call to arms', Anne Lehoërff investigates war's long-term development. She focusses on oral societies which have for a long while remained poorly understood, passed over by a historical tradition that saw the world of Classical Antiquity in a different light to that of 'primitive' peoples. But our European ancestors have their own history, and this book tells it. Anne Lehoërff is Professor of Archaeology at CY Cergy Paris University, and she presides the 'Conseil National de la Recherche Archéologique'. The French edition of A CALL TO ARMS was awarded the Verdun World Peace Center History Prize in 2018. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Anne LehoërffPublisher: Sidestone Press Imprint: Sidestone Press ISBN: 9789464261042ISBN 10: 9464261048 Pages: 226 Publication Date: 22 September 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Encountering War How history comes to the historian Going to war History, a human science Archaeology in history War and European Protohistory revisited What Wars? Introductory narrative: Once upon a time, a warrior’s weapons… War words Theories of war The philosophical angle Stateless societies as seen by Europeans The ‘savage’ beneath our feet Ever more archaeological evidence Archaeology and history The ‘primitive’ in the city The war of origins The Celt of our dreams And there was war… Research ‘evidence’ Introductory narrative: Keeping Arms An abundance of evidence After the battle The Metal Ages in pictures Scenes of combat The first battlefields Sacred sites and cult objects Skeletons and splinters The Lessons of Bones When Metal Speaks Introductory narrative: The World of Metal Fascinating metal Metal choices in Europe Unpicking harlequin’s cloak Hierarchies that dare not speak their name Deciphering and understanding In the laboratory Starting the investigation at the end In the bronze smith’s cauldron Under the metalworker’s hammer A list of weapons Narrative introduction: The bronze-smith in his workshop The sword extends the arm The sword evolves And a scabbard… The spear thickens Arrows of outrageous fortune The ambiguity of the hafted axe A shield to protect the body The metal helmet reinforces the warrior’s head Metal to embellish the breast Off to war Introductory narrative: Taking up arms Violence in the Palaeolithic Multiple-use technology in the Neolithic What kind of Neolithic ‘war’? Declaring war in the Bronze Age The revolution in fighting in 1700 BC Multifaceted war in the Iron Age Violence upon violence Farewell to arms Metal hoards War in all its States Introductory narrative: The 1000 BC warrior on the Normandy coast Women: goddesses or sinners? Masculine domination Rich women without weapons Transgressing norms Reasons for war The State, primitives, the written word. Terms of power. What sort of society? Three ages of war? Words and functions for all The West in the dynamics of warfare Conclusion: The human level Questions of scale War and peace A trip to the Bronze Age kitchenReviewsAuthor InformationProf. Dr. Anne Lehoërff is an archaeologist, archaeometallurgist and historian. She has an “agréation” in history, was member of the Ecole française de Rome, and director of the European ‘BOAT 1550’ project (2011-2015) investigating cross-channel navigation between the continent and the British Isles in the second millennium BC. Until 2020 Anne Lehoërff was a university professor at the university of Lille. She is now professor of ‘Archaeology and Patrimony’ at the University of CY Cergy Paris-Université, specialising in the European Bronze Age. She has studied and analysed hundreds of weapons throughout Europe, culminating in this book about the origins of war in Europe from the perspective of the sword. Anne Lehoërff continues to work on the Bronze Age, and more generally on European Protohistory from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. Recent books: 2021: Dictionnaire amoureux de l’archéologie, Paris, Plon, 596 p. 2020: Le Néolithique, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, Collection « Que Sais-je », 128 p. 2019: L’archéologie, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, Collection « Que Sais-je », 128 p. 2018: Par les armes. Le jour où l’homme inventa la guerre, Paris, Belin 2017: (éd.), Movement, Exchange and Identity in Europe in the 2nd and 1st Millennia BC. Beyond Frontiers, Oxford, Oxbow Books, 2017 [with Marc Talon], 304 p. 2016 : Préhistoires d’Europe. De Neandertal à Vercingétorix. –40 000/–52, Paris, Belin, 608 p. 2012 (dir.) : Beyond Horizon. Societies of the Channel and North Sea 3500 years ago, Paris, Somogy, [with the collaboration of Jean Bourgeois, Peter Clark, Marc talon]. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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