Monograph / Translated by Inna Pidluska. — Poznan (Poland), 2001. — 380 pp. — (Baltic-Pontic Studies; Vol. 10). — ISBN 83-86094-09-5; ISSN 1231-0344.The aim of this work is to investigate the sources of warfare, weapons, tactics and strategy of prehistoric societies in the historical perspective. The utmost goal of the work is the transformation of archaeological findings of weaponry into historical sources, which form the basis for the reconstruction of both individual military history events and the whole culture-historic models.
The objectives of this work are, first of all, to examine the typology and chronology of specific categories of weaponry, the issues concerning their production, origin and development in time and space, and to determine cultural affiliations of the identified groups and individual kinds of weapons. Furthermore, on this basis, the work will identify the systems of weaponry of specific archaeological cultures or groups of relics, and the conformity of the development of different systems of weaponry in space and time will be tracked. Based on these weaponry constructions, culture processes in the region will be modelled.Introduction.
Subject, Aim and Scope of this Work.
The History of Research.
Reference Sources.
Arrangement and Formal Considerations.
Weaponry and Warfare of the Neolithic-Eneolithic Age (5000-2800 BC).
Background.
Weapons of the Forest Population.
Weapons of Forest-Steppe Population of the Right-Bank Ukraine.
The Funnel Beaker Culture.
Weapons of the Steppe Population of the Neo-Eneolithic Period.
Description of the Military Craft of the Neo-Eneolithic Age.
The Weaponry of the Late Eneolithic Age (2800-2500 BC).
The Usatovo Group (Culture).
The Sofievka Group (Culture).
The Late Tripolye of the Western Volhynia.
The Globular Amphora Culture.
‘Pre-Yamnaya Cultures’ of the Ukrainian Steppe.
The Weaponry of Early Bronze Age (2500-1900 BC).
The Yamnaya Cultural-Historical Community.
The Kemi-Oba Culture.
The Catacomb Cultural-Historical Community.
Corded Ware Cultures.
Warfare and Cultural Processes of the Late Eneolithic — Early Bronze Age (2800-1900 BC).
Warfare of Societies of the Late Eneolithic — Early Bronze Age.
Cultural Processes in Ukraine in the Late Eneolithic — Early Bronze Age.
Weaponry, Warfare and Cultural Processes of the Middle Bronze Age (1900-1600 BC).
Weaponry of the Middle Bronze Age.
Warfare of the Middle Bronze Age.
Cultural Processes in Ukraine in the Middle Bronze Age.
Weaponry of the Late Bronze Age (1600-900 BC).
The Sabatinovka Period (1600-1200 BC).
The Belozerka Period (1200-900 BC).
Weaponry, Warfare, and Cultural Processes of the Late Bronze Age (1600-900 BC).
Cultural Processes in Ukraine of the Late Bronze Age.
Warfare of the Late Bronze Age.
Weaponry and Warfare of the Cimmerian Period (900-700 BC).
Weaponry of the Cimmerian Period.
Cultural Process of the Cimmerian Period.
Warfare of the Cimmerian Period.
Conclusions.
