Five years ago today I led my first phalanx drills at The Citadel. No one was seriously injured, and we learned a lot. Plus, saucer sleds make hella-good Macedonian peltai.pic.twitter.com/jjhk2eohoR
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If you read German, then there is a very full discussion of the issue in K. Liampi, *Makedonische Schild* (1998). If you only read English, good options with technical discussions are a lot more limited.
I honestly don't remember how well the topic gets treated in C.A. Matthew, *An Invincible Beast* (2016), but I recall having other issues with Matthews reconstructions, so 
I *know* I disagreed with N. Sekunda, *The Antigonid army* (2013) on this point.
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On the terminology? The big problem with Sekunda 2013, as I recall, was his *excessively* flimsy argument to see the leukaspides as thureophoroi
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Sekunda, as I recall, just uncritically repeats the notion that the 'pelte' (c. 65cm diameter shield) was less deeply dished (following Asclepiodotus) but actually looking at surviving shield-covers doesn't back this up.
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