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Title: Academic Articles Post by woodssj on May 15th, 2018 at 10:58pm
Academic Articles will be attached here for reference.
1. Skov, Eric T. Experimentation in Sling Weaponry: Effectiveness of and Archaeological Implications for a World Wide Primitive Technology. (2013) Anthropology Department Theses And Dissertations. Paper 30. Digitalcommons.unl.edu/anthrotheses/30 2. Skov, Eric T. Sling Technology: Towards an understanding of capabilities (2013) Nebraska Anthropologist. 169. Digitalcommons.unl.edu/nebanthro/169 ![]() ![]() |
Title: Re: Academic Articles Post by woodssj on May 15th, 2018 at 11:16pm
Ballistics:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2016.10.006 Borovsky et al. The traumatic potential of a projectile shot from a sling, For, Sci. Int. , 272, 10-15 (2017) (paywall) Vega and Craig, New experimental data on the distance of sling projectiles. Journal of Archaeological Science 36, 1264-1268 (2009) |
Title: Re: Academic Articles Post by woodssj on Sep 14th, 2020 at 9:00pm
https://is.muni.cz/th/deecu/Kubikova_Barbora_Master_Thesis_2015.pdf
Title: Morphological Study of Sling Projectiles with Analysis of Clay Balls from the Late Neolithic Site Tell Arbid Abyad (Syria) Author: Bc. Barbora Kubíková Institute/Department: Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts, Institute of Archaeology and Museology, Centre of Prehistoric Archaeology of the Near East (PANE) Supervisor of the master thesis: Dr. phil. Maximilian Wilding Abstract: The thesis aims to put the draft into the practice for further substantial research into the sling missiles in the Near East which has been made in the prior bachelor thesis. The presented work will try to establish a first morphological means for the identification of sling projectiles in the archaeological record in the Near East. The main goal is to concentrate on the metric data and the functional design of projectiles in order to establish parameters which are characteristic only for sling projectiles. The necessary size, weight and form parameters, however, cannot at present be deduced from archaeological artefacts proper, because the identification of "rounded handy-sized objects of clay or stone RHO" (Kubíková 2013, 17) as sling projectiles is disputed and very different functions for the plain and ball-like items are proposed (cooking stones, tokens etc.). The central idea is to get to valid parameters after studying sling projectiles in a secure context, where their identification is unambiguous, namely in their use by recent-ethnographic societies. Studying the attributes of slingstones from the ethnographic contexts from Oceania and Americas, it is hoped that realistic size and shape ranges can be defined which could serve as a supporting tool when designating and interpreting small finds of stone or clay in the Neolithic Near East. The range margins, it is thought, in the first step, will permit to subtract from the archaeological record all RHO items that fall out of the size, weight and form range of ethnographically attested sling missiles. As a testing case, the ethnographically derived parameters will be applied to various kinds of plain clay balls that were found at the Late Neolithic site Tell Arbid Abyad (MU-ARBA Project, NE-Syria, 2007–2010). Beyond that much of the available archaeological information and photographs of slingstones, sling balls and sling projectiles are brought together to spur an archaeological comparison and which could help archaeologists with a correct identification of small artefacts. |
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