Wiethase: Bows & Arrows of North & Eastern Europe, Central & Northern Asia I

Vol. 1 (of 2) of the great study of archery equipment from Europe and Asia.

These two books are the last ones of Hendrik Wiethase's work about bows and arrows of the world, showing in detail bows, arrows, quivers, thumb rings and arm protectors of Northern and Eastern Europe, Central- and North Asia. Both volumes contain a lot of literature about the topic, never translated into English before. Very helpful are here the numerous Russian sources.

Contents:

Foreword – page 5
General, cross-cultural part Timetable – page 6
Bruno F. Adler: “The North Asian Arrow”, 1901 – page 12
Bruno F. Adler: “The Bows of North Asia”, 1902 – page 50
G.M. Burov: The wooden bows of the Mesolithic peoples in the Far East of Europe – page 70
B. A. Litvinsky: “The Composite Bow in Ancient Central Asia” – page 76
A. F. Medvejev: Arrows (and Bows) from Russia from “Manual of Distance Weapons” – page 84

Special, culture-specific part
The Paleolithic period
The Earliest Russian Composite Bows – Page 185
“The Koksharovsko-Yurinskaya burial ground in the Middle Trans-Urals” – page 193
Bone objects of excavation sites Berendyevo V and IX – page 195
A settlement near the village of Nikola-Lenivvets, Kaluga region – page 200
The Neolithic Age
Tomb of a Bronze Age master in the Steppe-Transvolga region – page 202
Broadheads made from bones of the primitive population of the region at the confluence of the Volga and Oka – page 209
The Middle Stone Age
The North Pontic culture from around 5000 to 700 BC – page 215
Cultural Processes in Late Bronze Age Ukraine – page 220
The Kimmerian Period (900 – 700 BC) – page 221
The Bronze Age
Warfare in the Middle Bronze Age – page 238
Distance weapons of the early and middle Bronze Age of the steppe regions of Eastern Europe – page 260
Special ethnological partThe Parthians – page 264
The Macedonians – page 270
The Shooting Methods of the Archers of the Ancient Greek World – page 270
The Scythians, Sakaks and Sarmatians – page 274
The Tasmola culture in central Kazakhstan – page 276
Funeral from the pre-Scythian period – page 278
New materials on the former Scythian habitat on the left bank of the Lower Don – page 280
The pre-Scythian, Sacian Tasmola culture in central Kazakhstan – page 286
The problem of the formation of the culture of the Sakas (Scythians) in the South Urals – page 288
Collection of the Pre-Scythian and Early Scythian periods on the Lower Don – page 290
The weapons of Central Asian cattle breeders, 2nd century BC. – 5th century AD – page 292
Finds from the early Iron Age near Troiskoye in the Moscow region page 295
The ancient sites of the Upper Volga region page 297
Making of a Stone Age arrow – page 298
Some Late Bronze Age monuments in Nagorno-Karabakh – page 300
A Bronze Age kurgan near Sarychoban, Azerbaijan – page 301
The Munchaktepa burial site in northern Ferghana (Uzbekistan) – page 302
The Khangiz 1, a burial ground in Fergana – page 304
Replicas – page 305
The Xiongnu Culture – page 322
Finds of “Hunnic” origin in what is now Russia – page 323
Traditional armament of the Tesinski tribes – page 333
The Kokel Culture – page 336
Weapons of the Tajik tribes – page 346
The areas/cultures on the Upper Ob – page 354
The armament of the Berel tribes/culture – page 359
The art of war of the ancient Turks, (Gök-Turks – page 362
Peculiarities of the Lord of the Uyghurs – page 375 The armament of the Kimeks – page 379
Main regularities in the development of weapons and military art of the medieval nomads of Southern Siberia and Central Asia – page 387
The Hungarians – page 393
Hungarian bows and arrows – page 395
Central Asian iron arrowheads – page 417
The Vikings/Varangians – page 425
The arrowheads of Birka – page 429
The Pukkila cremation cemetery in Isokyrö – page 437 Norman Archery
Equipment – page 452 Bibliography on Adler “The North Asian Arrow”,
1901 – page 467 Symbol directory – page 468
Bibliography of Medvedev – page 473
Image references – page 472
Glossary – page 477

Hardcover, 480 pp., more than 1.370 ill., 89 plates. English edition.