Kośko A. (ed.) Fluted Maces in the System of Long-Distance Exchange Trails of the Bronze Age: 2350-800 BC

Poznań: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza, 2002. — 120 pp. — (Baltic-Pontic Studies, vol. 11). — ISBN: 83-86094-10-9.Fluted maces (Kannelierte Streitkolben) have not been an object of a monographic study so far. The reasons for this deficiency was the paucity of assemblage finds (mainly grave ones) and the fact that they occurred in the borderland between the East and West of Europe. Both reasons made it difficult to identify them chronologically and keep a full record of finds. The present monograph sums up almost 25 years of studies that at the outset were limited to Poland and only gradually were expanded to include the whole continent. This was made possible owing to the goodwill of many people and institutions from the Danube area, the Balkans and the Russian Plain.
The present volume of Baltic-Pontic Studies consists of two parts devoted, respectively, to the current state of knowledge on the position of the mace in the Near East and North Pontic civilizations, and the forms, chronology, origins, functions and socio-organizational significance of one of its types, namely the fluted mace.Maces among Near East societes and in their North Pontic impact area.
Maciej Popko. Mace-heads and similar objects in the ancient Near East according to written sources.
Piotr Taracha. The mace in the ancient Near East and Egypt according to archaeological sources.
Viktor I. Klochko. Maces of the neolithic-bronze age of the Northern Pontic region.
Fluted maces: taxonomy, topogenesis and functions. Perspective of the Mesopotamian civilization.
Aleksander Kosko. Fluted maces in cultural systems of the borderland of Eastern and Western Europe: 2350-800 BC. Taxonomy, genesis, function.
Witold Tyborowski. Mesopotamia, Anatolia and the Circumpontic region in the early bronze age.