Reference collection of combat wear traces on replicas of Bronze Age spears

This Dataset comprises a collection of photographs of combat wear traces produced during various experiments focusing on the use of bronze spears in combat experiments as described in the paper Gentile V., van Dijk C.J., ter Mors O., (2024): Multi-stage experiments in Bronze Age spear combat: insights on wear formation, trauma, and combat contexts. Journal of Archaeological science (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2024.106044). 

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