ANTON VLADZYMYRSKYY
A SHORT HISTORY OF THE KNIVES OF UKRAINE
Part 2 : THE BRONZE AGE
The discovery of metals resulted in a revolution in the manufacture of knives. Blades are wide, leaf-form, double-edged, with well made, high rockwell edges. There are three types of tang. One has a rhombus shaped widening in the center, another has a short quillon at the ricasso while the third widens progressively toward the pommel. Thus begins the development of a new kind of weapon - the dagger.
Katakombnaya culture. People of this culture used:
Double-edged knives with leaf-form blades.
Bronze daggers with straight wide triangular double-edged blades without crossguards. The tang had an insignificant rectangular thickening near the pommel;
Bronze knife with a wide short leaf-form blade, it's length practically equal to it's width, this weapon has well made hard edges. The handle's tang features a small thickening near the end.
Yamnaya culture.
In this period are found bronze
double-edged spear-form knives and bronze knives with triangular blades. Ancient silicon knives are still used.
Bondarkhinskaya culture.
The workmen of this culture produced
bronze knives with straight double-edged blades
and iron knives in arrowhead-form."
Sabatynovskaya and Belozerskaya cultures.
"short swords, daggers and knives
(wide, leaf-form, double edged blades with ribs and small crossguard)."
Gaalshtat. culture
Knives of two kinds are known:
silicon sickle-form;
bronze, straight, single edge blades with curved back.
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