The Combat Archaeology Research Project



Publications

Articles:

All of the articles on this page have been published in peer-reviewed journals and are available through their courtesy.


Ioannis Georganas: "Weapons and Warfare in Early Iron Age Thessaly"

(Published in Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry, Vol. 5, No 2, pp. 63-74, (2005))



Barry Molloy: "Martial Arts and Materiality: a Combat Archaeology perspective on Aegean swords of the fifteenth and fourteenth centuries BC"

(This article appears courtesy of the Taylor and Francis Group and the experimental archaeology issue which this article is in can be found here. It is published in World Archaeology, "Experimental Archaeology", Vol. 40(1): 116-134 (2008))


Books:

Barry Molloy (Ed.): The Cutting Edge
    
TABLE OF CONTENTS:

1 Barry P.C. Molloy: Introduction: the evil that men do &
2 Steven Pressfield: One day at Thermopylae
3 Alan Peatfield: Reliving Greek personal combat -boxing and pankration
4 Jon C.N. Coulston: By the sword united: Roman fighting styles on the battlefield and in the arena
5 Tom Hulit and Thom Richardson: The warriors of Pharaoh: experiments with New Kingdom Egyptian scale armour, archery and chariots
6 Allen Pittman: 'With your shield or on it': combat applications of the Hoplite spear and shield
7 Ronan O'Flaherty: The Irish Early Bronze Age halberd: practical experiment and combat possibilities
8 Barry P.C. Molloy: What's the bloody point?: Bronze Age swordsmanship in Ireland and Britain
9 Erhard Godehardt, Jerzy Jaworski, Peter Pieper and Hans Michael Schellenberg: The reconstruction of Sythian bows
10 Richard Underwood: The Early Anglo-Saxon shield: reconstruction as an aid to interpretation
11 Piotr Taracha: Warriors of the Mycenaean 'Age of Plate'
12 Jeffrey Forgeng and Alex Kiermayer: 'The Chivalric Art': German martial arts treatises of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
13 John Clements: The myth of thrusting 'versus' cutting with swords
14 J. Christoph Amberger: Killing arts or upper-class leisure activity?: aspects of European combatives in image and literature
15 Barry P.C. Molloy and Dave Grossman: Why can't Johnny kill?: the psychology and physiology of interpersonal combat
Download sample chapter here Chapter 15