Bronze Age was some Mad Max shit. Post the best of Bronze Age

No it didn't you retard, it started 3000 years before that. Go back to /b/ or something

See: HYKSOS

If you decide to invent this something both big and weird must be going on.

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salimbeti.com/micenei/helmets3.htm

I think salimbeti is the author of the osprey book in question, but

>Based on the above mentioned specimens we can thus hypothize the general outfit of these kind of "tiara like" helmet. The first one is decorated with a "feather style" crest similar to the one worn by the sea peoples, in this case made of the same straw of the inner cap. The second one is decorated with rushes following the representation in some pottery fragments of possible similar helmets from Serayia island of Ko

>Picture: A close parallel of this kind of "tiara like" helmet can be identify in a very unusual helmet depicted in this krater fragments from the Late Achaean settlement of Serayia in the island of Kos near Rhodes dated around twelfth Century BC. This helmet is shaped like a bag, it seems to enclose the face to the jawbone, slanting down to cover the back of the neck. A nose protection seems also represented and the warrior's eyes are conspicuous in the centre of this armour. The flat top of the helmet is crested with a series of tall rays pronged or branching out in Y-forks, more like plants (rushes?) than feathers, although it is difficult to imagine what else could be intended.

The interesting thing is that a lot of shit you'd think as being pure fantasy like horns on your helmet or a helmet literally made out of horns is proven almost beyond a shadow of a doubt with both archaeological artifacts, the Homeric anachronistic passage mentioning Odysseus' boar's tusk helmet and actual depictions by the locals. It'd be downright insincere to dismiss it as artistic license when you have such backing up material.

To be fair though some of Salimbeti or the other guy who really dominates the Mycenaean artwork/history depiction scene are less objective and a lot more interpretive.

So for instance the rightmost guy is based off the Warrior Vase. They interpret the poncho armor to be a front and back only laminated bronze apron, on top of what looks like a semi stiff organic cuirass and softer/more flexible skirt.

That's wrong. They didn't use bronze before 100BC approximately. Why are you lying?

fucking kek!
they all have the same expression!

Hold it right there criminal scum

There is none, one or two Mycenean wares with stick figures wearing potheads were found and somehow some artists assumed sea peoples wore them as well

Yes but those were not sea peoples as far as we know at least, just myceneans

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>battle shorts
Nice.

Based off what we know of the Sea people it's entirely reasonable to conclude they had a large Mycenaean or Aegean makeup.

no the sea people were celto-phoenicians, they settled in Ireland and Venice (Eire = Arya) (phoenicia becomes vencia)

Why didn't anyone ever try that after the egyptians? It's actually a pretty ingenious metal, and medieval era metallurgy would make it even better.

what's wrong with it, its a good sword

Cretan fears the Sea Warrior

HOT

The Greek Kopis (left) is theorized to be the decedent of the Egyptian Kopesh.

>implying you could stab properly with that
I'd rather just have a regular longsword.

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>Mad Max

not

>Conan the barbarian

niggla please

I see a pointy bit on the top, so it should stab just fine, assuming you know how to handle it.

>no the sea people were celto-phoenicians, they settled in Ireland and Venice (Eire = Arya) (phoenicia becomes vencia)
celts weren't a thing before Hallstatt you know.

Sardinians invaded Crete

The sea peoples had mi mostly Cypriot-Anatolians among their rangs with an Aegean component and some South Italian mercenaries, plus they allied with North African berbers

I must complete the cow armor set.

Remember, there was a Bronze Age on the far eastern side of the continent too. Featuring such innovations as mass produced bronze crossbow trigger mechanisms.

Who the fuck does these paintings? Is it one Chinese artist or Multiple people?

I really like the style

>yfw nobody does good reproduction bronze weapons

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I've always adored the aesthetic of the late bronze age and would love to write a heroic romance set them, some badass sea warrior shrekking his way through Egypt, the levant, and mesopotamia.

what would babylonians, canaanites, israelies, and philistines armor look like?

New findings linked the Sherden with the Nuragic civilizations in Sardinia
There are two school of thought on the matter
The first one claims the Sherden originated in Sardinia and from here they sailed and pillaged
The second one claims they came either from the Levant or from the Balkans and settled in the island mixing with the locals
Sword, Helms and Shield found in Sardinia match the descriptions and paintings the Egyptians gave of them
For a period of time the Sherden became the royal guarda of the Pharaoh
There's a Wikipedia article about them if people want more and sources

Correct, they've also found an Egyptian scarab in a Nuragic individual tomb dated to 1300-950 bc

oh god this gives me a boner. especially Achilles in this picture. I'm not even gay, but pictures of warriors REALLY turn me on, i am not joking or exaggerating. I come to these threads to look at pics the same way a normal person would look at porn. What's wrong with me Veeky Forums.

Why are most of them wearing Central European armor?

Achilles in pic does look like a pretty cool dude to hang around with. Would bro with

I thought the Mycenaeans did a hundred or so years later after the Thera eruption.

WE
WUZ
MARAUDERS
AND SHIIIEEEEEET

Best thread in a while
Good job OP

LindyBeige had one and said it stabs fine

>No clothes
>That large turd shaped gold nugget placed exactly where it should be
I have seen some weird shit on the internet, but this is gold.

The Sea People didnt exist

>When you're watching a show about the Hittites and they start reading that peace treaty where King Hattusili III and Pharaoh Ramses II agree to be bros for life
"He is a brother to me and he is at peace with me; and I am a brother to him and I am forever at peace with him"

False

Provide one (1) example of a precolumbian finding from the new world that has been confirmed to be bronze (85% to 95% copper with the majority of the remainder composed of tin or arsenic) by a reliable source.

that's supposed to be diomedes thrusting his spear in aphrodite's wrist, right?

That made me feel.

>he did not take advantage of the Hittite's weakness because he realized some serious shit was going on and soon it would come to Egypt

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahah

It's meant to flay unarmored dudes at arms length.

Why did his bones melt and sink into the rock?

>that bronze dick top.
He must have been gifted.

you can stab anyone with anything if you put your mind to it!

I think you might be gay

If by sea peoples you mean a group of marauders from all over the Eastern (Crete, Greece, Anatolia, Cyprus, Libya, Syria) and possibly Central (South Italy, Sardinia and Tunisia) Mediterranean coasts who cooperated to bring the great Eastern med kingdoms to their knees, then they indeed existed, it's one of my favorite groups of people because they show the strength of multiethnic communities

THATS FUCKING HYKSOS KOPIS YOU TWAT
THEY MADE THAT SWORD

Hyksos were West Semite speaking peoples probably from Amurru (Syria)

This guy wasn't Bronze age, he was Chalcolithic, like Otzi

Thing never change, bro

Mould for bronze axes

Now that's cool and handy

That's his codpiece, like you said... this is gold

I imagine it'd have to do with soil acidity

Wenches love gold

Oh shit, just looked into the Necropolis and noticed it's from 4,200 BC and not 3,200 BC. Yeah he's too old, my bad

Fuck off back to Veeky Forums, carnac

Stop trying to cover it up MacMasters, we all know that's a toaster.

Yeah but it's a toaster for axes

Conan the barbarian starts at greek city states and goes till the early ottoman empire.

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