Raphael Hermann is a research fellow at the Seminar für Ur- und Frühgeschichte in Göttingen, Germany, where he is part of the ERC consolidator project WEIGHTANDVALUE. His research interest are the European Bronze Age, prehistoric combat, experimental archaeology, weight metrology, statistical analysis and metalwork wear analysis of tools and weapons. Rachel J. Crellin is Lecturer in Later Prehistory at the University of Leicester. Her research interests include the Neolithic and Bronze Age of Britain and Ireland and archaeological theory, especially new materialist, feminist and post-humanist approaches. She is a metalwork wear-analyst specializing in the study of Bronze Age tools and weapons. Marion Uckelmann is a researcher in the European Bronze Age, specialising in weaponry, warfare, mobility, and metal working technologies. She undertook her PhD on shields at the Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster. She has also been an editor at Prähistorische Bronzefunde and a postdoctoral researcher at Exeter University. She is currently an honorary research fellow at the Department of Archaeology at Durham University, UK. Quanyu Wang is a professor at the Institute of Cultural Heritage at Shangdong University, China. She was previously a senior scientist at the British Museum. Andrea Dolfini is a Senior Lecturer in Later Prehistory at Newcastle University, specialising in early metallurgy and metalwork weare analysis.