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A miniature antler bow from a Middle Bronze Age site at Isleham, (Cambridgeshire), England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Kasia Gdaniec
Kasia Gdaniec*
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Cambridge Archaeological Unit, Department of Archaeology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DZ, England
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A little bow — at less than half a metre long too small to be a practical tool — comes from the later prehistoric Fenland of east England. Along with the wristguards, fine arrowheads and smoothing stones of the British Bronze Age, it tells of the special meaning of archery in later prehistory — whether in the animal chase or in human combat.

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Antiquity , Volume 70 , Issue 269 , September 1996 , pp. 652 - 657
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1996

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