  | CHAPTER | | PAGE | | FOREWORD | ix | | INTRODUCTION | xi | | LIST OF AUTHORITIES | xxiii | | I. | PREAMBLE: ON THE ORIGIN OF WEAPONS | 1 | | II. | MAN’S FIRST WEAPONS—THE STONE AND THE STICK. THE EARLIEST AGES OF WEAPONS. THE AGES OF WOOD, OF BONE, AND OF HORN | 16 | | III. | THE WEAPONS OF THE AGE OF WOOD: THE BOOMERANG AND THE SWORD OF WOOD; OF STONE, AND OF WOOD AND STONE COMBINED | 31 | | IV. | THE PROTO-CHALCITIC OR COPPER AGE OF WEAPONS | 53 | | V. | THE SECOND CHALCITIC AGE OF ALLOYS—BRONZE, BRASS, ETC.: THE AXE AND THE SWORD | 74 | | VI. | THE PROTO-SIDERIC OR EARLY IRON AGE OF WEAPONS | 97 | | VII. | THE SWORD: WHAT IS IT? | 123 | | VIII. | THE SWORD IN ANCIENT EGYPT AND IN MODERN AFRICA | 143 | | IX. | THE SWORD IN KHITA-LAND, PALESTINE AND CANAAN; PHŒNICIA AND CARTHAGE; JEWRY, CYPRUS, TROY, AND ETRURIA | 172 | | X. | THE SWORD IN BABYLONIA, ASSYRIA AND PERSIA, AND ANCIENT INDIA | 199 | | XI. | THE SWORD IN ANCIENT GREECE: HOMER; HESIOD AND HERODOTUS: MYCENÆ | 220 | | XII. | THE SWORD IN ANCIENT ROME: THE LEGION AND THE GLADIATOR | 244 | | XIII. | THE SWORD AMONGST THE BARBARIANS (EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE) | 262 | | CONCLUSION | 280 | | INDEX | 281 |
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