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To: SunkenCiv

A sword cut is mentioned. They had swords back then?


4 posted on 12/04/2011 8:50:01 PM PST by decimon
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To: decimon

Sharp rock, sword. The Agony and the Ecstasy...


8 posted on 12/04/2011 8:55:18 PM PST by bigheadfred
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They were Bronze Age. You can make a decent sword out of bronze, though they were very expensive and thus usually limited to high aristocracy.

The Trojan war guys found with bronze weapons.

Interestingly, when iron working became widespread it caused the collapse of societies around the world and led to centuries of Dark Age.


11 posted on 12/04/2011 8:58:24 PM PST by Sherman Logan
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There is also a mention of a sewage drain. They had plumbers back then?


21 posted on 12/05/2011 12:21:00 AM PST by muir_redwoods (No wonder this administration favors abortion; everything they have done is an abortion)
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To: decimon
A sword cut is mentioned. They had swords back then?

Depending on how you define "sword"... sure. Of course iron and bronze have been worked into weapons for thousands of years. But even back in the stone age there were wooden "swords" with shards of obsidian or other glass-like stone stuck along an edge. Crude, but effective and fearsome.

22 posted on 12/05/2011 3:05:34 AM PST by Ramius
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