List of historical weapons by region of origin and ethnic group

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This list of historical weapons by region of origin and ethnic group provides an overview of historical weapons and weapon types, broken down by region of origin and ethnic group. Modern weapons that were developed in the 20th or 21st centuries can be found in other reviews.

Africa

Breakdown by region

North africa

Central Africa

Spread of Trumbash
  • Trumbash common in central Africa and Ugandan regions

Breakdown by ethnic group

In this section, the ethnicity is put in front; the known objects of these ethnic groups are indented below.

Alphabetical overview of the objects

Asia

Breakdown by region

China

Tibet

South East Asia

Alphabetical overview of the objects of Indonesia

Alphabetical overview of the objects

Australia and Oceania

Alphabetical overview of the objects of Australia

Alphabetical overview of the objects of Oceania

Europe

Breakdown by region

Greece

Roman Empire

Alphabetical overview of the objects

North America

Breakdown by ethnic group

In this section, the ethnicity is put in front; the known objects of these ethnic groups are indented below.

Alphabetical overview of the objects

South America

Breakdown by ethnic group

In this section, the ethnicity is put in front; the known objects of these ethnic groups are indented below.

Alphabetical overview of the objects

Web links

literature

  • Hermann Baumann (ed.): The peoples of Africa and their traditional cultures. Steiner, Wiesbaden. Volume 1: General Part and Southern Africa. (= Studies in cultural studies. 34). 1975, ISBN 3-515-01968-5 . - Volume 2: East, West and North Africa. (= Studies in cultural studies. 35). 1979, ISBN 3-515-02371-2 .
  • Hans Dietschy: The American clubs and wooden swords in their relationship to the cultural history of the New World. Dissertation Phil.-Hist. Faculty of Basel. Brill, Leiden 1939
  • Walter Hough: Primitive American armor. Government Printing Office, Washington 1895. (Reprint from: Report of the US National Museum for 1893, pp. 625–651 and plates).
  • Edward H. Knight: A Study of the Savage Weapons at the Centennial Exhibition. Philadelphia, 1876. In: Smithsonian Institution: Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution ... for the Year 1879. Government Printing Office, Washington 1880.
  • Felix Speiser: About protective weapons in Melanesia. In: International Archive for Ethnography. Brill, Leiden, Vol. 40, 1941.
  • Christopher Spring: African arms and armor. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC 1993, ISBN 978-1-56098-317-0 .
  • George Cameron Stone: A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor in All Countries and in All Times: Together with Some Closely Related Subjects. Southwork Press, Portland, Maine 1934. (Reprint: Dover Publications, Mineola, New York 1999, ISBN 0-486-40726-8 ).
  • Werner Fischer, Manfred A. Zirngibl: African weapons. Knives, daggers, swords, axes, thrown weapons. Verlag Prinz, Passau 1978, ISBN 3-9800212-0-3 .
  • Augustus Pitt Rivers (as: Lane Fox): Primitive Warfare. Illustrated from Specimens from the Museum of the Institution. Lecture, June 28, 1867. Royal United Service Institution, [no location] 1867
  • Manfred A. Zirngibl, Alexander Kubetz: panga na visu. Handguns, forged cult objects and shields from Africa. HePeLo-Verlag, Riedlhütte 2009, ISBN 978-3-9811254-2-9 .
  • Albert G. van Zonneveld: Traditional weapons of the Indonesian archipelago. C. Zwartenkot Art Books, Leiden 2001, ISBN 90-5450-004-2 .