Chapter IV: Introduction: xi

LIST OF AUTHORITIES xxiii

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; PHŒNICIA 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