A Call to Arms: The Day War was Invented

About Anne Lehoërff

Prof. Dr. Anne Lehoërff is an archaeologist archaeometallurgist and historian. She has an agréation in history was member of the Ecole française de Rome and director of the European BOAT 1550 project (2011-2015) investigating cross-channel navigation between the continent and the British Isles in the second millennium BC. Until 2020 Anne Lehoërff was a university professor at the university of Lille. She is now professor of Archaeology and Patrimony at the University of CY Cergy Paris-Université specialising in the European Bronze Age. She has studied and analysed hundreds of weapons throughout Europe culminating in this book about the origins of war in Europe from the perspective of the sword. Anne Lehoërff continues to work on the Bronze Age and more generally on European Protohistory from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. Recent books: 2021: Dictionnaire amoureux de larchéologie Paris Plon 596 p. 2020: Le Néolithique Paris Presses Universitaires de France Collection « Que Sais-je » 128 p. 2019: Larchéologie Paris Presses Universitaires de France Collection « Que Sais-je » 128 p. 2018: Par les armes. Le jour où lhomme inventa la guerre Paris Belin 2017: (éd.) Movement Exchange and Identity in Europe in the 2nd and 1st Millennia BC. Beyond Frontiers Oxford Oxbow Books 2017 with Marc Talon 304 p. 2016 : Préhistoires dEurope. De Neandertal à Vercingétorix. 40 000/52 Paris Belin 608 p. 2012 (dir.) : Beyond Horizon. Societies of the Channel and North Sea 3500 years ago Paris Somogy with the collaboration of Jean Bourgeois Peter Clark Marc talon.