Introduction / Marianne Mödlinger, Marion Uckelmann and Steven Matthews -- The smith's approach. Spearheads and swords - the making of bronze objects / Markus Binggeli -- Halberds. Use-wear on Bronze Age halberds: the case of Iberia / Dirk Brandherm -- Ceremonial or deadly serious? New insights into the function of Irish early Bronze Age halberds / Ronan O'Flaherty, Michael D. Gilchrist and Trevor Cowie -- Deliberate destruction of halberds / Christian Horn -- Swords. Use-wear analysis and use-patterns of Bronze Age swords / Barry Molloy -- Chelsea and Ballintober swords: typology, chronology and use / Steven Matthews -- Irish swords: use and abuse / Ian Colquhoun -- Integrating form, function and technology in ancient swords. The concept of quality / Marc Gener -- Slash and stab: some remakrs on the manufacture, function and deposition of carp's-tongue swords (summary) / Dirk Brandherm and Magdalena Moskal-del Hoyo --^ The discovery of a new Tachlovice sword at Pont-sur-Seine, Aube, France / Sylvie Boulud-Gazo -- Swords and new analysis methods. Ritual object or powerful weapon - the usage of central Europe Bronze Age swords / Marianne Mödlinger -- Neutron resonance capture analysis and the Bronze Age / Hans Postma, Peter Schillebeeckx and Marianne Mödlinger -- Bow and arrow. The Sintasha bow of the Bronze Age of the south Trans-Urals, Russia / Andrey Bersenev, Andrey Epimakhov and Dmitry Zdanovich -- Shields. The function of Bronze Age shields / Marion Uckelmann -- Metallurgical and archaeological investigations on the Macedonian shields of Staro Bonče (3rd century BC) / Paolo Piccardo and Dusko Temelkoski -- Abstracts form the workshop in Vienna 2009. The results of the x-rays examination of swords from Poland [abstract] / Michał Bugaj -- 'By weapons made worthy"? Production, use and deposition of Bronze Age weaponry [abstract] / David Fontijn --^ Metal alloy and texture analysis of Bronze Age swords by neutron diffraction [abstract] / Evelyne Godfrey, Winfried Kockelmann and Marianne Mödlinger -- Late Bronze Age crested helmets in the Eastern Alps [abstract] / Andreas Lippert -- Weapons grade bronze [abstract] / Peter Northover -- Computed tomography for the 3D analysis of metallic archaeological findings [abstract] / Dietmar Salaberger and Johann Kastner -- Examples of imagery in ornamentation on late Bronze Age weapons [abstract] / Stefan Wirth -- Studies on the production and function of late Bronze Age swords [abstract] / Michael Siedlaczek -- Abstracts from the session at the 15th EAA Annual Meeting in Riva Del Garda 2009. Experimental comparison of spearheads use-wear analysis [abstract] / Kate Anderson -- Halberds and red herrings. Weaponry and warfare in the earlier Bronze Age of southeast Spain [abstract] / Dirk Brandherm ... [et al.] --^ Weapons or tools? Insights into the usage of metalwork in Copper Age Italy [abstract] / Andrea Dolfini -- The spirit of the sword and the spear [abstract] / Mark Pearce.