| Although
there is plenty of information online, you might want
to consult some more formal sources. Below is a list
of books that can aid your research. If you know of,
or have found any new resources that are not listed
here, please email me at info@slinging.org
so I can add it to the list.
- Avery,
Michael. "Stone and Fire at Hillfort Entrances
of Southern Britian." World Archaeology, Vol
18, No. 2, Weaponry and Warfare, p216-230. October
1986.
- Ballard,
Lynn P. "Making and Using the Venerable
Hand Sling." In, Mother Earth News: p. 148-149. May/June
1985.
- Ballou,
James. "How to Make Twine and Braids." Wilderness
Way Magazine: Volume 10, Issue 1 (Spring), p. 28-30.
- Blackmore,
Howard. "Hunting Weapons." Walker &
Company, New York, 1971.
- Blaiklock,
Edward M. "The New International Dictionary of
Biblical Archaeology." Grand Rapids, Michigan:
Zondervan Publishing House, 1983.
- Byers,
Gary A. "To Sling or Not to Sling/Ekron."
Bible and Spade - The Associates for Biblical Research,
Walkersville, Maryland. Winter 1998.
- Cahlander,
Adele. "Sling Braiding of the Andes."
Weaver's Journal Monograph IV. Colorado Fiber
Center, Boulder. 1980.
- Campbell,
Paul. "The Chumash Sling." The Bulletin
of Primitive Technology. Fall 1996.
- Deem,
Ariella. "...And the Stone Sank into his Forehead.
A note on 1 Samuel XVII 49." Vetus Testamentum,
Vol 28, Fasc. 3, p349-351. July 1978.
- Edge-Partinton,
J. "Hawaiian Squid-Hook Sinkers and Sling Stones."
Man, Vol 17, p79-80. May 1917.
- Foss,
Clive. "Greek Sling Bullets in Oxford."
Archaeological Reports, 21, 40-44. 1974.
- Foss,
Clive. "A Bullet of Tissaphernes." The Journal
of Hellenic Studies, 95, 25-30. 1975.
- Greep,
S.J. "Lead Sling-Shot from Windridge Farm, St.
Albans and the Use of the Sling by the Roman Army
in Britain." Britannia, 18, 183-200. 1987.
- Harding,
David. (Ed.) "Weapons: An International Encyclopedia
From 5000 B.C. to 2000 A.D." New York: St. Martin's
Press. 1980.
- Harrison,
Chris. "The Sling in Medieval Europe." The
Bulletin of Primitive Technology, Vol. 31, Spring
2006.
- Hawkins,
Walter "Observations on the Use of the
Sling, as a Warlike Weapon Among the Ancients".
Printed by J.B. Nichols and Son. p. 14. London. 1847.
- Heizer,
Robert F. and Irmgard W. Johnson. "A Prehistoric
Sling from Lovelock Cave, Nevada". American Antiquity
18(2): 139-147. October 1952.
- Korfmann,
Manfred. "The Sling as a weapon" Scientific
American 229(4): p. 34-42. October 1973.
- Kuttab,
Daoud. "A Profile off the Stonethrowers."
Journal of Palestine Studies. Vol 17, No. 3, p14-23.
Spring 1988.
- Lindblom,
K.G. "The Sling, Especially in Africa" p.
11, 35. Stockholm, 1940.
- Meddelonden,
Smärre. "The Sling, Especially in Africa,
Additional Notes to a Previous Paper," Nr. 17,
Stockholm: Statens Ethnografiska Museum, 1940.
- Mixter,
John R. "Man’s first long-range missile
weapon." Military History, 18:3, August 2001.
- Moir,
J. Reed. "A remarkable Object From Beneath the
Red Crag." Man, Vol 29, p62-65, April 1929.
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Owen, Rodrick "Braids: 250 patterns from
Japan, Peru, and Beyond." Interweave Press. Loveland,
Colorado. 1995.
- Richardson,
Thom. "Ballistic Testing of Historical Weapons,"
Royal Armouries Yearbook 3, p. 50. 1998.
- Rorebeck,
Scott. "Adventures with a Sling" The Backwoodsman
Magazine: p. 57-60. March/April 2003.
- Savage,
Cliff. "The Sling for Sport and Survival."
Breakout Productions. Port Townsend, Washington.
1999.
- Schwartz,
Max. "Machines, Buildings and Weaponry
of Biblical Times." Old Tappan, NJ: Revell, 1990.
- Sellers,
Ovid R. "Sling Stones of Biblical Times."
The Biblical Archaeologist, Vol. 2, No. 4, p41-45,
December 1939.
- Stoddard,
Scott. "Ancient/Modern Weapon: The Sling."
American Survival Guide: p. 58-59, May 1988.
- Tada,
Makiko. "Comprehensive Treatise of Braids II:
Andean Braids."
- Van
Driel-Murray, C. "Roman Military Equipment: The
Sources of Evidence" Proceedings of the Fifth
Roman Military Equipment Conference, BAR International
Series 476, p. 1-11. Oxford. 1989.
- Vindolanda
Research Reports, New Series Volume IV. ISBN: 1 873136
46 3. pg.12
- Vutiropulos,
Nikos. "The sling in the Aegean Bronze Age."
Antiquity, 65, 279-286. 1991.
- Zorn,
E. "Sling Braiding in Macusani Area of Peru."
Textile
Museum Journal, p. 19, 20, 41-54, 1980-1981.
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