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    The spear or lance, together with the bow, the sword, the seax and the shield, was the main equipment of the Germanic warriors during the Migration Period...
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    The Migration Period sword was a type of sword popular during the Migration Period and the Merovingian period of European history (c. 4th to 7th centuries...
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  • This is a list of types of spears found worldwide throughout history. Migration Period spear Bayonet (when fixed to a Long gun) Arbir Bambu Runcing Dangpa...
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  • Gungnir (redirect from Spear Odin)
    Bolga, the Irish legendary hero Cú Chulainn's similar magic spear Migration period spear SAAB RBS_15 Mk. IV Gungnir long-range fire-and-forget surface-to-surface...
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  • running event in Peterborough, United Kingdom Gross enrolment ratio Migration Period spear Yurt (Mongolian: гэр) Gers (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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    Seax (category Migration Period)
    inlays of silver, copper, brass, etc. Kragehul lance Migration Period sword Migration Period spear Seax of Beagnoth Bosworth, Joseph, D.D., F.R.S. An Anglo-Saxon...
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    the spearhead of Dahmsdorf-Müncheberg ᚱᚨᚾᛃᚨ (ranja, "router"). Migration Period spear Tineke Looijenga, Texts & contexts of the oldest Runic inscriptions...
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  • List of premodern combat weapons (category Weapons by period)
    category (e.g. the spear may be used either as a polearm or as a projectile), and the earliest gunpowder weapons which fit within the period are also included...
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  • Gēr may refer to: Old High German for "spear", see Migration Period spear Old Anglo-Frisian for year, see Jēram This disambiguation page lists articles...
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    migration period lance-shaft found on Funen, Denmark. It is now in the collection of the National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark. The spear shaft...
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  • Viking raid warfare and tactics Anglo-Saxon military organization Migration period spear Heather, Peter, 1998, The Goths, Blackwell, Malden, pp. 53–55. Kulikowski...
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    Holtzmann's law Suebi This includes common nouns such as framea "Migration Period spear", mythological characters such as Mannus and tribal names such as...
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    during the following Archaic Period. Researchers continue to study and discuss the specifics of Paleo-Indian migration to and throughout the Americas...
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    killed when Macedon was invaded by Gauls in 279 BC—his head stuck on a spear—and the country fell into anarchy. Antigonus II Gonatas invaded Thrace in...
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    ability of a common blacksmith. The Seax was in widespread use among the Migration period Germanic tribes, and is even eponymous of the Saxons. It appears in...
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    settlement of North America to the period during which glaciers were still extensive. That led to the hypothesis of a migration route between the Laurentide...
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    in the relief of the Battle of the Milvian Bridge. A depiction on a Migration Period (5th century) metal die from Öland, Sweden, shows a warrior with a...
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    Middle Ages (redirect from Medieval period)
    counterurbanisation, the collapse of centralised authority, the mass migration of tribes (mainly Germanic peoples), and Christianisation, which had begun...
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    Migration Period (5th and 6th century CE) gold bracteates (types A, B, and C) feature a depiction of a human figure above a horse, holding a spear and...
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    directions in the study of the early Anglo-Saxon period, in Hines, J. (ed.) The Anglo-Saxons from Migration Period to the Eighth Century, Studies in Historical...
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    Bracteate (category Migration Period)
    jewelry that was produced in Northern Europe predominantly during the Migration Period of the Germanic Iron Age (including the Vendel era in Sweden). Bracteate...
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    which does not support the hypothesis of a mass migration from the Levantine during the prehistoric period. According to historian William Stiebling and...
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    baldric under the left arm. The xiphos was generally used only when the spear was broken, taken by the enemy, or discarded for close combat. Very few...
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    hoplite was a common form of heavy infantry. All hoplites had a shield and spear, and perhaps a helmet as well. Wealthier hoplites were able to afford bronze...
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    Neolithic (redirect from Neolithic Period)
    (from Greek νέος néos 'new' and λίθος líthos 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa. It saw...
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    community") in the northern steppes in the Bronze Age period, prior to the southward migration of the Iranian tribes, thus favoring some variant of the...
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  • Eurasian back-migrations, specifically West-Eurasian backflow, started in the early Holocene or already earlier in the Paleolithic period, sometimes between...
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    The Oromo expansions, also known as the Oromo migrations or the Oromo invasions (in older historiography, Galla invasions), were a series of expansions...
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    Migration period artists are famous for. Their passion for colour makes their jewellery stand out. Colour is the primary feature of Migration period jewellery...
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    chronicles suggest that women occasionally fought in battle. The atlatl (spear-thrower) was introduced to the Maya region by Teotihuacan in the Early Classic...
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