"Bronze Age swords bear the marks of skilled fighters" Topic

"Warriors during the Bronze Age used their weapons in skilful ways that would have required lots of training in specific techniques, researchers say.

‘‘People understood that these weapons could be very easily marked so used them in ways that would limit the amount of damage received. These specialised techniques would have to be learned, with a certain amount of training, to be mastered."…"

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Armand

A very good article. I'd love to read some of their deeper analysis.

"Short swords" recovered in the excavations at Must Farm in the Fenlands have led to conclusions about fighting styles and the skills the styles required… overturning the views of the Bronze Age being "less violent" than the Iron Age, and subsequent eras…

In contemplation it makes sense people would put effort and thought into something that would be and was a literal matter of life and death.

Since our modern society is very removed from this fact and used to dramatic displays of unrealistic exhibitions, either on stage or screen, deeper thought is rarely placed on this.

One thing to remember is that we don't necessarily find typical or random swords. Most are simply lost. If we recover a 2,500 year old object that means something unusual happened. So we should remember that these swords are not necessarily typical, so the marks on them are not necessarily typical. If what we have is mostly grave goods from the wealthy then all we've learned is that the wealth were fencing, which doesn't necessarily imply anything about the rank and file.

Happy you enjoyed it my friend!. (smile)

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Armand