In Europe, an elaborately carved ceremonial flint mace head was one of the artifacts discovered in excavations of the Neolithic mound of Knowth in Ireland, and Bronze Age archaeology cites numerous finds of perforated mace heads.
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In Europe, an elaborately carved ceremonial flint mace head was one of the artifacts discovered in excavations of the Neolithic mound of Knowth in Ireland, and Bronze Age archaeology cites numerous finds of perforated mace heads.
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With the advent of copper mace heads, they no longer shattered and a better fit could be made to the wooden club by giving the eye of the mace head the shape of a cone and using a tapered handle.
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With the advent of copper mace heads, they no longer shattered and a better fit could be made to the wooden club by giving the eye of the mace head the shape of a cone and using a tapered handle.
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Burna-Buriy�a may have been succeeded by his son serpentine or diorite mace head or possibly door knob found in Babylon, is engraved with a votive inscription of Ulaburariaa, " son of Burna-Buriaa ", King of Sealand .
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A rounded pear form of mace head known as a " piriform " replaced the disc mace in the Naqada II period of pre-dynastic Upper Egypt ( 3600 3250 B . C . ) and was used throughout the Naqada III period ( 3250-3100 B . C . ).
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However, the earliest and most famous reference to irrigation in Egyptian archaeology has been found on the mace head of the Scorpion King, which has been roughly dated to about 3100 BC . The mace head depicts the king cutting into a ditch that is part of a grid of basin irrigation.
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However, the earliest and most famous reference to irrigation in Egyptian archaeology has been found on the mace head of the Scorpion King, which has been roughly dated to about 3100 BC . The mace head depicts the king cutting into a ditch that is part of a grid of basin irrigation.
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In Hissar II and III copper artifacts increase in quality and variety and include personal ornaments ( earrings, pendants, bracelets, bands ), tools and weapons ( bidents, lances, mattocks, chisels, mace heads ), and luxury items ( vessels, mirrors, boxes and intricately cast pins and rods ).
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Similar mace heads were also used in Mesopotamia around 2450 1900 B . C . The Assyrians used maces probably about nineteenth century B . C . and in their campaigns; the maces were usually made of stone or marble and furnished with gold or other metals, but were rarely used in battle unless fighting heavily armoured infantry.
