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Table 1 Daily use of the objects as recognised by archaeologists, number of measurements, number of sub groups

From: Rings or daggers, axes or fibulae have a different composition? A multivariate study on Central Italy bronzes from eneolithic to early iron age

groups

 

n.measures

n.sub.groups

groupsaxes, choppers, hatchets

 

42

9

poleaxes, spearheads

 

26

3

brooches and fragments

 

26

7

swords

 

23

8

knives, poignards

 

17

7

rings

 

12

3

razor

 

11

4

needles, pins

 

9

2

skull, ingots, metal foils

 

6

3

nail

 

6

1

iron damascene on bronze brooch

 

5

2

spring wire wound

 

5

1

sword sheath

 

4

1

arrowhead

 

4

2

sickle

 

2

1

earring

 

2

1

 

total

200

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