| CHAPTER | | PAGE |
|---|
| | [FOREWORD] | ix |
| | [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 |
| | [CONCLUSION] | 280 |
| | [INDEX] | 281 |