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- Title
A symbol -- but of what? Iron Age daggers, Alessi corkscrews and anthropoid embellishment reconsidered.
- Authors
Carlson, Jack
- Abstract
An ingenious derivation for the La Tène dagger with anthropoid hilt shows how craftsmen gave an agreeable character to a working weapon. The dagger remained every bit as effective, but the splayed person on the hilt added a touch of playful luxury to the serious business of stabbing. By way of a modern anthropoid corkscrew, the author lures us away from an obsession with symbolism and encourages us to look for a more down-to-earth 'psychological functionality' in decorated objects.
- Subjects
PREHISTORIC daggers; LA Tene Period; IRON Age; PREHISTORIC weapons; CORKSCREWS; ANTHROPOMORPHISM
- Publication
Antiquity, 2011, Vol 85, Issue 330, p1312
- ISSN
0003-598X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0003598X00062074