Testing a Bronze Age Sword
Arms and Armor, Bronze Age, Technology
Ewart Park Phase, 700-800 B.C.
Via Art of Swords.
Category Archive 'Bronze Age'
12 Jan 2015
Testing a Bronze Age SwordArms and Armor, Bronze Age, TechnologyEwart Park Phase, 700-800 B.C. Via Art of Swords. 25 Nov 2014
Bronze Age Dirk Had Been Used as a DoorstopArchaeology, Arms and Armor, Bronze Age
EDP24 has a great story.
Read the whole thing. ———————————- The British Museum’s account of its discovery differs:
Bronze Age, 1450-1300 BC Hat tip to Ratak Monodosico. 23 May 2011
Old, Unhappy, Far-off Things, and Battles Long AgoArchaeology, Bronze Age, Germany, Tollense RiverHuman remains of Bronze Age began turning up along the banks of the Tollense River, near Neubrandenburg on the Mecklenburg plain north of Berlin, in 1997. More than 2000 bones representing the skeletal remains of 90 individuals, along with war clubs and the remains of horses, have been found, providing evidence of a battle fought here around 1250 B.C. An article appearing in this month’s Antiquity (behind subscription screen) reports:
The archaeological investigation does not seem to have turned up any metal weapons. Perhaps, metal swords and spear points were so valuable in the region in that period that they would have been carefully recovered at the time of the battle. The wooden weapons found, some examples described as resembling a baseball bat and a polo mallet, must have been used by common tribesmen, insufficiently wealthy to arm themselves with swords. History records pagan Baltic tribesmen from Samogitia going into battle against the Teutonic knights as late as the time of the battle of Grunwald in 1410 A.D. armed with knotted oaken war clubs in which flints had been embedded. Who was fighting and what the conflict was all about are completely unknown, but the German researchers estimate that at least 200 men must have been killed in the course of a single action. BBC story Spiegel German-language article Spiegel photo slide-show 3:42 German-language video Feeds
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