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The sling in the Aegean Bronze Age

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Nikos Vutiropulos
Nikos Vutiropulos*
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Chereti 29/Kato Patissia, Athens 10445, Greece
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The sling, a feared weapon in early antiquity, in time lost its force to the cutting weapons, especially the cutting weapons of the horseman, and to the shot arrow. The sling itself perishes, and the sling-shot may not be an easy object to recognize in the excavation trench. Evidence for the sling – that is, the sling-shot – in the Aegean Bronze Age is here reviewed.

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Antiquity , Volume 65 , Issue 247 , June 1991 , pp. 279 - 286
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1991

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