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Post by legacyofthesword on Aug 22, 2017 0:21:38 GMT
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Post by Timo Nieminen on Aug 22, 2017 1:37:25 GMT
More recent examples include North American bone armours and Toraja bone scale armour. A Toraja bone armour:
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Post by pgandy on Aug 22, 2017 13:55:59 GMT
Thanks to both for sharing.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2017 15:46:54 GMT
The Mycenaeans used helmets that were reinforced with boar's tusks in the late Bronze Age. Can't think of a better way of telling people you're badass that wearing a helmet that shows you've killed over forty wild boars with a spear. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar%27s_tusk_helmet
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Aug 22, 2017 16:29:55 GMT
In Bavarian warrior graves of the 6th century they found remains of leather helmets with boar tusks, but it's not clear whether those tusks were used as an armor- plate or as a decoration. Since I know this I wonder if the myth of the horned Viking helmets could come from similar helmets. Afaik both Bavarian and Viking "plain" warriors usually had no metal helmets.
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Post by legacyofthesword on Aug 22, 2017 16:51:28 GMT
The Mycenaeans used helmets that were reinforced with boar's tusks in the late Bronze Age. Can't think of a better way of telling people you're badass that wearing a helmet that shows you've killed over forty wild boars with a spear. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar%27s_tusk_helmetIn Bavarian warrior graves of the 6th century they found remains of leather helmets with boar tusks, but it's not clear whether those tusks were used as an armor- plate or as a decoration. Since I know this I wonder if the myth of the horned Viking helmets could come from similar helmets. Afaik both Bavarian and Viking "plain" warriors usually had no metal helmets. What I've always found fascinating is how materially similar many cultures were back in the Bronze Age, even ones as far apart as Germany and Greece.
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Aug 22, 2017 18:21:39 GMT
6th cent. AD, not BC! The iron age in Bavaria started ca. in the 8th cent. BC, they were the neighbors of Hallstatt and Noricum. But that were celtic tribes then, Bavarians can't be found earlier than the 6th cent. AD. But if you cant get or affort an iron helmet you use other materials.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2017 18:38:39 GMT
In Bavarian warrior graves of the 6th century they found remains of leather helmets with boar tusks, but it's not clear whether those tusks were used as an armor- plate or as a decoration. Since I know this I wonder if the myth of the horned Viking helmets could come from similar helmets. Afaik both Bavarian and Viking "plain" warriors usually had no metal helmets. Horned helmets were known in antiquity. The Sherden, one of the Sea Peoples whose attacks around the eastern Mediterranean helped end the Bronze Age, were usually depicted wearing horned helmets. I don't recall that any actual samples have been found, but that's not too surprising. It was over 3000 years ago, and the Sea Peoples left very little evidence of where they came from, or where they went afterwards. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherden
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2017 18:48:08 GMT
The Mycenaeans used helmets that were reinforced with boar's tusks in the late Bronze Age. Can't think of a better way of telling people you're badass that wearing a helmet that shows you've killed over forty wild boars with a spear. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar%27s_tusk_helmetIn Bavarian warrior graves of the 6th century they found remains of leather helmets with boar tusks, but it's not clear whether those tusks were used as an armor- plate or as a decoration. Since I know this I wonder if the myth of the horned Viking helmets could come from similar helmets. Afaik both Bavarian and Viking "plain" warriors usually had no metal helmets. What I've always found fascinating is how materially similar many cultures were back in the Bronze Age, even ones as far apart as Germany and Greece. Yeah, that was an interesting time. I read that the copper used to make bronze during that time was sourced from Crete, while the tin came from mines in what's now Afghanistan. Apparently there was a complex network of international trade and communication among all those kingdoms around the Med, and possibly extending up into Europe, as far east as India, and if the analysis on some early bronzes can be believed, China.
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Post by legacyofthesword on Aug 22, 2017 18:56:18 GMT
6th cent. AD, not BC! The iron age in Bavaria started ca. in the 8th cent. BC, they were the neighbors of Hallstatt and Noricum. But that were celtic tribes then, Bavarians can't be found earlier than the 6th cent. AD. But if you cant get or affort an iron helmet you use other materials. Haha, that does make a difference!
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Post by legacyofthesword on Aug 22, 2017 18:57:29 GMT
What I've always found fascinating is how materially similar many cultures were back in the Bronze Age, even ones as far apart as Germany and Greece. Yeah, that was an interesting time. I read that the copper used to make bronze during that time was sourced from Crete, while the tin came from mines in what's now Afghanistan. Apparently there was a complex network of international trade and communication among all those kingdoms around the Med, and possibly extending up into Europe, as far east as India, and if the analysis on some early bronzes can be believed, China. Yep, the first worldwide economy. People weren't as isolated in the old days as everyone likes to think.
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