ABSTRACT The Early Bronze Age was a time of major changes in southern Levantine regions. The spread of urbanisation in the course of the third millennium BC was accompanied by various socio-political transformations, tensions and also violent encounters, even if the evidence for the latter is hard to detect in the archaeological record. The almost complete absence of arrowheads from settlements and tombs in the southern Levant from this period has led to the assumption that combat archery was not employed during the Early Bronze Age. This paper challenges this orthodoxy using evidence from the southern Levant and beyond, and it concludes that archery was employed in combat activities during the Early Bronze Age, albeit on a small scale that was determined by military considerations.

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早期青铜器时代南黎凡特战争中射箭的存在：注释

摘要 青铜时代早期是黎凡特南部地区发生重大变化的时期。公元前第三个千年的城市化进程伴随着各种社会政治变革、紧张局势和暴力冲突，即使后者的证据很难在考古记录中发现。从这一时期开始，黎凡特南部的定居点和墓葬中几乎完全没有箭头，这导致人们假设在青铜时代早期没有使用战斗射箭。本文使用来自黎凡特南部及其他地区的证据挑战了这一正统观念，并得出结论认为，在青铜时代早期，射箭已被用于战斗活动，尽管其规模是由军事考虑决定的。