When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Corded Ware culture - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corded_Ware_culture

    Along the once heavily timbered walls were found the remains of about twenty clay vessels, six work axes and a battle axe, which all came from the last period of the culture. There were also the cremated remains of at least six people. This is the earliest find of cremation in Scandinavia and it shows close contacts with Central Europe.

  3. List of premodern combat weapons - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_premodern_combat...

    Battle axe (European) Bhuj with blade shaped like the dagger on a long shaft [1] Broadaxe (European) Congolese axe [1] (African) Dahomey axe club, also an effective blunt weapon [1] (African) Danish axe, hafted axe, English long axe, Viking axe, Danish longer axe (European) Doloire (European) Fu (Chinese) Hand axe, ovate handaxe (Paleolithic ...

  4. Battle Axe culture - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Axe_culture

    Axes of flint are found in both male and female burials. Battle axes are placed with males close to the head. [2] These battle axes appear to have been status symbols, and it is from them that the culture is named. About 3000 battle axes have been found, in sites distributed over all of Scandinavia, but they are sparse in Norrland and northern ...

  5. Battle axe - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_axe

    The battle axe of ancient India was known as a parashu (or farasa in some dialects). Made from iron, bamboo, wood, or wootz steel, it usually measures 90–150 cm (3.0–4.9 ft) though some are as long as 210 cm (7 ft). A typical parashu could have a single edge or double edge, with a hole for fixing a shaft.

  6. Tlaximaltepoztli - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlaximaltepoztli

    Based on the size of the bronze axe heads exhibited by the National Anthropology Museum and images in the Codex Fejérváry-Mayer, the tepoztli is estimated to have been 1.3 to 3 ft (0.40 to 0.91 m) long and 1.5 in (38 mm) wide. Its design featured a hole in the shaft where the axe head was inserted and firmly attached using a natural adhesive ...

  7. Khopesh - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khopesh

    A typical khopesh is 50–60 cm (20–24 in) in length, though smaller examples also exist. The inside curve of the weapon could be used to trap an opponent's arm, or to pull an opponent's shield out of the way.

  8. Ax Battler: A Legend of Golden Axe - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ax_Battler:_A_Legend_of...

    Ax Battler: A Legend of Golden Axe [a] [1] is an action-adventure video game spin-off of the popular Golden Axe series. The game was released on the Sega Game Gear in 1991. The protagonist is Ax Battler, the male barbarian character from the original Golden Axe game. The series' primary villain, Death Adder, is laying siege to the entire world.

  9. Nordic Bronze Age - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_Bronze_Age

    The Nordic Bronze Age (also Northern Bronze Age, or Scandinavian Bronze Age) is a period of Scandinavian prehistory from c. 2000/1750–500 BC.. The Nordic Bronze Age culture emerged about 1750 BC as a continuation of the Late Neolithic Dagger period, which is rooted in the Battle Axe culture (the Swedish-Norwegian Corded Ware variant), the Single Grave Culture (the north German and Danish ...