Table of Contents
Foreword xiii
Introduction xv
I Preamble: On the Origin of Weapons 1
II Man's First Weapons-The Stone and the Stick. The Earliest Ages of Weapons. the Ages of Wood, of Bone, and of Horn 16
III The Weapons of the Age of Wood: The Boomerang and the Sword of Wood; Of Stone, and of Wood and Stone Combined 31
IV The Proto-Chalcitic or Copper Age of Weapons 53
V The Second Chalcitic Age of Alloys-Bronze, Brass, Etc.: The Axe and the Sword 74
VI The Proto-Sideric or Early Iron Age of Weapons 97
VII The Sword: What is It? 123
VIII The Sword in Ancient Egypt and in Modern Africa 143
IX The Sword in Khita-Land, Palestine and Canaan; Phoenicia and Carthage; Jewry, Cyprus, Troy, and Etruria 172
X The Sword in Babylonia, Assyria and Persia, and Ancient India 199
XI The Sword in Ancient Greece: Homer; Hesiod and Herodotus: Mycenæ 220
XII The Sword in Ancient Rome; The Legion and the Gladiator 244
XIII The Sword Amongst the Barbarians (Early Roman Empire) 262
Conclusion 280
List of Authorities 281
Index 291