New Study Reveals Function of Bronze Age Daggers

According to an natural residue evaluation carried out on 10 copper-alloy daggers from Pragatto, a Bronze Age home web site (1550-1250 BCE) in northern Italy, these artifacts have been used for processing animal carcasses and never as non-functional symbols of id and standing, as beforehand thought. Daggers are ubiquitous but poorly understood artifacts from prehistoric Europe. They first appeared […]