Analysis of Bronze Age daggers has shown that they were used for processing animal carcasses and not as non-functional symbols of identity and status, as previously thought. First appearing in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists excavating a field in the municipality of Kutenholz in the Stade District, in Lower Saxony, Germany, have ...

A metal detectorist recently discovered not one, but two bronze and wood daggers that experts dated to over 3,000 years ago. Only the bronze portions of the instruments survived for so long buried in ...

During a routine walk through the woods near Gudersleben, a village in Thuringia, Germany, a father and his two young sons encountered an extraordinary piece of the past. Lying exposed on the forest ...

First appearing in the early 4 th millennium BCE, copper-alloy daggers were widespread in Bronze Age Europe including Britain and Ireland. Yet archaeologists have long debated what these objects were ...