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ON March 28, Mr. Harold Peake made a communication to the Royal Anthropological Institute on the subject of Bronze Swords and the Aryan Problem. He began by describing a type of sword, with a long tang cast to fit the hand, the Type II. of Naue, which is believed to have originated in the Danube basin. He showed how the butt of the blade had passed from a depressed semicircle through various forms to that of a flattened oval, and how its convex outline had then gradually become concave; he then divided the swords into a progressive series of seven types. He explained how the first of these had developed from a dagger, while the last had been found in the Hallstatt cemetery, where iron weapons had been the rule.
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The Aryan Problem. Nature 109, 563 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109563a0
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