Bronze Age solid-hilted swords (2024)

Available

Dataset

Licence : CC BY-NC-SA doi:10.25666/DATAUBFC-2024-03-06

Access to data

Data creator : Léonard Dumont ^[1] ^[2]

Data collector : Léonard Dumont ^[1] ^[2]

Research group : Archéologie, Terre, Histoire, Sociétés (UMR 6298), Ghent University

[1] : Archéologie, Terre, Histoire, Sociétés (UMR 6298) (Université de Bourgogne)

[2] : Ghent University

Description :

Inventory of European Bronze Age solid-hilted swords. The dataset provides information regarding the provenance, context, typology and production techniques of the investigated swords.

Discipline :

archaeology (humanities)

Keywords :

bronze age, metallurgy, metal typology, offensive weapon, radiography, sword, tomography

General metadata

Data acquisition date : from 1 Sep 2015 to 2 Jul 2022

Data acquisition methods :

Derived or compiled data :
The inventory is based on published material (e.g. in the Prähistorische Bronzefunde) completed by new data produced during different research stays in museums.
Observational data :
Data acquisition regarding production techniques relied on the observation of the artefacts and their examination using X-ray radiography and micro tomography.

Update periodicity : no update

Language : French (fra)

Formats : application/pdf, application/x-bibtex, text/csv

Audience : University: master, Research, Informal Education

Coverages

Spatial coverage :

Europe (continent): latitude between 63° N and 34° N, longitude between 12° W and 35° E

Time coverage :

Âge du Bronze: between 2300 yr before common era and 800 yr before common era

Publications :

Production et circulation des épées à poignée métallique de l'âge du Bronze en Europe occidentale (hal:tel-03815132)

Collection :

Données de thèse

Publisher : dataUBFC - Atelier de la donnée de Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Project and funder :

Thèse de doctorat en archéologie - Léonard Dumont
- Bijzonder Onderzoeksfonds, Ghent University (Another public institution)

Additional information :

This dataset was produced during L. Dumont's PhD, carried out under joint supervision between UBFC and Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium) between 2018 and 2022. Information regarding chronology as well as typological and technological classifications are available in the dissertation (available at https://theses.hal.science/tel-03815132).

Data

	4 files
		Dumont_epees.bib Published : 23/06/2024 22:48 Size : 918.29 kB Continued Description : References of the Bronze Age solid-hilted swords dataset (BibTeX format)
		Dumont-epees-biblio.pdf Published : 23/06/2024 22:50 Size : 204.69 kB Continued Description : List of references
		Dumont-epees.csv Published : 04/09/2024 23:18 Size : 888.47 kB Continued Description : Jeu de données sur les épées à poignée métallique de l'âge du Bronze en Europe
		readme.md Published : 24/06/2024 14:33 Size : 8.00 kB