The master's thesis analyses knives from late antique and early medieval contexts, namely from settlements and burial grounds. The thesis is divided into three parts. In the first part the typology and chronology of knives from the Late Latene period to the High Middle Ages is presented, with an emphasis on the formal presence of knives in the area of present-day Slovenia in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages. The functionality of the knife is also emphasized. In the second part a statistical analysis of late antique and early medieval knives from burial sites is presented, with an attempt to interpret the meaning of knives in the society of that time. In the third part, natural science analyses of knives are presented, with the aim of determining the structural and chemical composition of selected samples.
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