The Pritanoi Preview Appendix

[Lvcretivs]

@Brennus: Did you mean 'Coins and power in late Iron Age Britain'? - judging from the Google Books preview a very interesting read, thank you!

[oudysseos]

Here is a pretty good article about potin (bronze alloy) coins.

[Brennus]

@Brennus: Did you mean 'Coins and power in late Iron Age Britain'? - judging from the Google Books preview a very interesting read, thank you!

That's the one!

Thanks for the article oudysseos!

[Noble Wrath]

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...

[oudysseos]

It's important to remember that iron weapons are not the same as modern steel weapons.

[Brennus]

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).

[oudysseos]

Rehosted all the images and thumbnailed some- so now this should be a little easier on the ole bandwith.

[Mediolanicus]

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?

[oudysseos]

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.