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Die ältesten kupferzeitlichen Bestattungen mit Dolchbeigabe
The main objective of this study is to collect and analyze relevant closed single grave finds with mainly silex or metal daggers from the third millennium BC. However, to approach this complex of problems as comprehensively as possible, the earliest evidence of double-edged thrusting weapons from Eastern and Southeastern Europe and Western Asia Minor were also considered in their ritual funeral context. A larger digression is also devoted to the early manufacture of daggers in predynastic Egypt.
In addition to discussing chronological aspects of this arming custom, the genesis and spread of formal and technological traditions of this type of weapon are at the center of our interest. The critical question in this context is whether and how the dagger-bearing part of the population in the burial rite differs from burials at the same time without the addition of thrusting weapons. Ultimately, this leads to socio-historical considerations regarding how far the dagger can be understood as a status-forming accessory.
