Too much info on the urls
Of course, if you remove them, keywords won't be highlighted but :
Incendiary clay bullets in Belgium, 350 bC (French) info of a La Tène I (say 350 BC) dig with "incendiary clay sling bullets"-- probably identified because such things are mentioned by Caesar. Belgium.
Iron sling bullet? C2AD (French): A dig in the départment of the Vienne in France apparently found an iron sling bullet in the destruction layer of a Roman temple (C2nd AD). I wonder how they identified it.
Lead sling bullets at Knossos, 1500 bC: A report by Charles Picard (not very good archaeologist), on LEAD bullets found at Knossos, in a "chapel". If this is right, if the bullets are indeed bullets, and are not stratigraphical intrusions, then this is proof that lead bullets were used say ca. 1300 BC
Clay sling bullets at Chartage: 1910 dig in Carthage, two ammo dumps, sealed below destruction layer (146 BC): one is rough catapult stones, the other is big dump of CLAY sling bullets. Rather unusual at this date-- do Carthaginians continue the old NE habit of fired clay bullets, or is it because of the siege that they can't get lead ?
Late Neolithic clay bullets Tell Sabi: Late Neolithic settlement. Cache with 2000 clay bullets. Date: 5000-5100 BC ?
Bullets dump, Lambesis, 450aD: Legionary fort at Lambaesis (N. Africa). Dump with 300 catapult shot, and 6000 clay shot (possibly some small marble shot, too). Clay ones are hand-rolled. Date: ca. AD 450 ?
Clay bullets, Iran: Report on digs at Susa. Big cache of clay sling bullets in 'artisan's house', prepared and never used. Ca. 2000 BC ?
Celtic moulds: Mention of sling bullet moulds found in Celtic forts. Apparently the shape, cylindro-ogival, is typical for the region.
Clay bullets, 300bC, France: Jolly good archaeologist, O. Buchenschutz, reporting on a dig: ca 300 BC, clay sling bullets, from Picardie. Scroll upwards for pics.
Report on slingstone cache: Big slingstone cache, in ancient Ugarit. Date must be C16th BC ?.
Bullets from Paris: Mould for sling bullets (inscribed) found in Paris in 1991. Mention made of sling bullets found Rue d'Ulm. Alas, pictures cannot be shown.
Korfmann sling: Korfmann's thesis , on the Childe thesis (bow and sling mutually exclusive)
A short note from the famous history journal, Annales, on slinging:
http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/ahess_0395-2649_1949_num_...: arguing that slinging was originally a Medit. weapon, that sling bullets allow the use of the sling in non-Med. ecologies, and that the decline of slinging in the ancient world goes with the "Germanization" of the Roman army. The first point is not quite right. It is true, though, that lead sling bullets died out after a while
Those should work better.
And I will come back later with a short review in english from a slinger's PoV
The last one is a "discussion" about why Romans abandonned the sling : it may be because of a civilisation change, from mediterranean (sling widely used) to germanic and oriental, more used to the bow. (I did also found this one for my own research
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I will have to complete this list from my own tresor box now...