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    Quote Originally Posted by Noble Wrath View Post
    A very interesting read. It's amazing what archaeology can find, sometimes by literally searching the garbige of societies long gone. And good Oudysseos has vowed to post every slightest detail of it! :-P
    I had not realised till now that iron weapons were in fact inferior to the bronze ones and that it was just their greater availability that made them so popular. When for example Xenophon states in his Anabasis that the Greek mercenaries wore bronze helmets, I thought that those helmets were a cheaper version of the more effective iron ones. It turns out that I was wrong and that those boys wore the good stuff after all...
    What about things like the Aquitanian socketed axes of the Late Bronze Age? My understanding is that by the late Bronze age so much lead was being added to the bronze tools of Erope that they were so soft as to be useless e.g. the Aquitanian socketed axes. Iron, even though soft at the beginning of the Halstatt period was still better as a tool. I could be wrong though, my knowledge of the Bronze Age is limited to Urnfield vehicles (or as I believe a lack of them).



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    Rehosted all the images and thumbnailed some- so now this should be a little easier on the ole bandwith.
    οἵη περ φύλλων γενεὴ τοίη δὲ καὶ ἀνδρῶν.
    Even as are the generations of leaves, such are the lives of men.
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    Quote Originally Posted by oudysseos View Post
    Rehosted all the images and thumbnailed some- so now this should be a little easier on the ole bandwith.
    You missed one under the picture of the recontructed crannog.

    Fantastic work btw Oudysseos. I'm a fan of your posts. I stillremeber those you posted some time ago about North Africa and Iberia and the Pillars of Hercules IIRC. They were a nice teaser for this.
    Keep up the great work. Makes me wonder... Do you happen to publish anything about history - or is taking EB too much of your time?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mediolanicus View Post
    Do you happen to publish anything about history - or is taking EB too much of your time?
    No, and yes. Actually, I am a chef and have to work for a living. Also a parent. So not lots of time.
    οἵη περ φύλλων γενεὴ τοίη δὲ καὶ ἀνδρῶν.
    Even as are the generations of leaves, such are the lives of men.
    Glaucus, son of Hippolochus, Illiad, 6.146



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