A call to arms : the day war was invented / Anne Lehoërff ; [foreword by David Fontijn ; translated by Tim Armstrong].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lehoërff, Anne, author.

Contributor:

Fontijn, David R., writer of foreword.

Armstrong, Tim, translator.

Standardized Title:

Par les armes : le jour où l'homme inventa la guerre. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Warfare, Prehistoric.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (203 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Sidestone Press, 2022.

Language Note:

Dedication in French: rest of the work is in English, translated from the French.

Biography/History:

"Prof. 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."--Provided by publisher.

Summary:

"One 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."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Encountering War

I. What Wars?

II. Research 'evidence'

III. When metal speaks

IV. A list of weapons

V. Off to war

VI. War in all its states

VII. The human level.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-203).

Description based on online resource (viewed 27 February 2023), publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Lehoërff, Anne A call to arms

ISBN:

9789464261066

9464261064

OCLC:

1346367848