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Some remarks on the use of duckbill fenestrated axes in the middle bronze Near East

2002, 45, Tom 45, Nr A

Łukasz Rutkowski

0000-0002-0721-5392

Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw

University of Warsaw, Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, Centrum Archeologii Śródziemnomorskiej

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06.01.2002

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Humanities

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archeology

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English

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Abstract

I n the earlier second millennium BC , two kinds of socketed axes were in use in the Near East: narrowbladed and fenestrated ones (axes with two holes in the blade)1 . Whil e the former had already been known in the third millennium B C and remained in use in some forms until modern times, the latter were a device o f the Middle Bronze Age and became obsolete towards the end o f this period.

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