Why is the Bronze Age so fascinating?

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Bronze doesn't corrode, so wouldn't they eventually accumulate massive amounts of bronze?

>>3261949
>I'M FUCKING INVINCIBLE

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>>3261940
cause the Bronze Age Collapse upended the trajectory of humanity and caused the relatively sudden end of many civilizations
and it was fairly advanced, yet farther back than antiquity

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>bronze age
>ended when the bronze ran out

>>3261949
didn't that actually happen though? the bronze supply was too large and people took to actively burying it to lower the supply? Something I read about Ireland I think

>>3261940
First big use of metal

are we currently in the Plastic Age?

>>3261940
>Celtic customs
>Scandinavia

Nice wewuwzing, Bjorn

>>3262062
Oil age/ petrochemical age.
Ain't just a crafting material but also a source of energy, medicine and even food. We are so utterly fucked if we don't change course.

>>3262062
Aluminum age would better fit

>>3262193
>Oil Age Collapse incoming

well, we had a good run

>>3262062
Silicon Age

>>3262149
Why do you bash nords, what had they done to you?

>>3262149
WE IRISH WUZ KANGZ LIKE DA ROMANZ, DEM NORDS BE WEWUZZIN US TOO!!

>meanwhile in 3200AD /his/

Why is the Petrochemical age so fascinating? Seriously, there's something otherworldly about it.

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Pick one

>>3261940

So much that came later was prefigured in the Bronze Age. It's alien and distant but at the same time contains so much that is familiar.

>>3262767

Do I get to be a native? If so, Meluhha, otherwise I'll take my chances with Egypt.

>>3262796
Where?

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>to the people of antiquity pre-bronze age collapse civilization was as distant and alien to them as they are to us

>>3262341
We already had that age desu

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>>3262946
I dunno, anon. Even with the changing ages, technologies, empires, people are always kinda the same, drinking in bars with their buddies from work, shooting the shit, etc...

pic related, its roman graffiti very similar to shit you'd see on this site. Near the bottom are some nice feels.

>>3261940
The mythology and larger than life characters

>>3262404
>look at all these memes they made!

>>3262946
I doubt it, 1980 felt a lot further away in 2000 than 2000 feels from 2017. We just have so much data that it's outright redundant and it almost makes it feel like time isn't moving anymore.

>>3263006
>drinking in bars
>bronze age


Lol, also comparing those graffiti to 4chan is idiotic

>>3261949
Copper was in too short supply for that. The only mass producer of copper in this age and into the Archaic and Roman periods was Cyprus, who's name derives from Kúpros, the greek word for copper.

>>3263925
Taverns serving beer literally existed in ancient Mesopotamia.

>>3263925
>comparing those graffiti to 4chan is idiotic
They're anonymous shitposts on public display, I'd say 4chan comparison is very apt.

>>3262404
>>3262341
>>3262206
>>3262193
>>3262062
>not cloud age or meme age

>>3264009
Wrong: copper was abundant in Sardinia and Spain during the bronze age and in fact those islands traded all the time

>>3264144
>spain
>islands

Care to rephrase that?

Sardinia was not known for producing significant copper until the Roman period and the vast majority of all ingots found there during the Nuralgic period come from Cypriot ore.

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/146195710100400102

>Most ingot fragments have a lead isotope signature similar to those of Cypriot copper ores

http://oxalid.arch.ox.ac.uk/casestudy/casestudy.html

>However, the lead isotope analyses of samples of oxhide ingots from all geographical locations, including Sardinia, show quite clearly that copper ingots of this shape were only made of Cypriot copper, mainly from the Apliki region (Stos-Gale et al 1997, Stos-Gale and Gale 1991, Gale 1999 and 2006). The plots of lead isotope ratios of the Sardinian ores and the ores from Apliki mines on Cyprus, and the copper oxhide ingots found on Sardinia illustrate this result.

There are surface copper deposits all around the world. Hence why I qualified my statement with "significant". Cyprus supplied almost all of the western world's known copper until the end of the Roman era.

>>3264009
The bronze age lasted 3000 years, so if you imagine a year's production of bronze and multiply that by 3000, either you get an enormous amount of bronze or they were producing miniscule quantities.

Bronze tools were scraped and worn down over time I guess.

>>3262149
>>Nordic bronze age customs
>>Scandinavia
fixed

>>3261949
Not much more than people accumulating massive amounts of gold. Bronze was luxurious.

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>>3264166
A recent study has established that some of those oxhide ingots were made of Sardinian copper:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286876867_A_strange_lead_isotopic_signature_the_Funtana_Coberta-Ballao_hoard_Sardinia

By the way I wasn't even talking about oxhide ingots, oxhide ingots were a peculiar type of ingots which originated in Cyprus, no shit that most of them were made with Cypriot copper, I was talking about copper and copper ingots in general, copper tools and ingots (non oxhide ones) made with Sardinian copper were found in and outside in Sardinia since 3300 bc

Another recent study established most of the copper used for swords during the bronze age in Scandinavia came from Sardinia and Spain, this happened since 1600 bc:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440313002689

Tools made with Sardinian copper were also found in the Eastern Mediterranean and Levant since the bronze age:

http://www.academia.edu/12825051/2014_Gli_itineranti_del_naufragio_del_millennio_._Gli_Shardana_i_popoli_del_mare_e_la_Sardegna._Omaggio_a_Giovanni_Lilliu_Testo_e_immagini_intervento_letto_

Ingots made with Sardinian copper are abundant in the Western Mediterranean during the late bronze age and early iron age, both in Sardinian settlements and outside the island, and several amphorae containing copious amounts of Sardinian copper were found in many sites and sanctuaries, such as the sanctuary of S'arcu e is forros, where multiple melting furnaces were excavated

http://eprints.uniss.it/5034/1/DeRosa_B_Sant_Imbenia_Alghero_SS.pdf
http://www.academia.edu/25043621/DALLA_MINERALOGIA_ALLA_METALLURGIA_CONTRIBUTO_ALLO_STUDIO_DEI_METODI_TRADIZIONALI_DI_LAVORAZIONE_DEI_METALLI_FRA_ARCHEOLOGIA_E_ETNOARCHEOLOGIA
http://www.academia.edu/29053155/Ripensando_i_contatti_fra_Sardegna_e_Penisola_Iberica_all_alba_del_I_millennio_a.C._Vecchie_e_nuove_evidenze


So stop talking out of your ass

>>3261940
>Seriously, there's something otherworldly about it.

19th century romanticism

>>3263006
>f you act contrary to this warning, you will have to pay a penalty. Children must pay (n) silver coins. Slaves will be beaten on their behinds.

Well then.

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>>3264288


Also aside from Spain and Sardinia, copper from the Sinai Peninsula and the red sea region was mined and exported as far as Western Europe: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286876867_A_strange_lead_isotopic_signature_the_Funtana_Coberta-Ballao_hoard_Sardinia


So saying that Cyprus was the only source of copper is just wrong

So they had: Cyprus, Anatolia, The Sinai Peninsula and others regions along the red sea coasts, Sardinia, Spain and the Balkans to get copper from

>>3262350
I think you mean "what have they ever done for humanity". They LARP, like Germans, as if they are a master race when in reality they are just snow niggers.

>>3264337
I've never seen an actual German LARP as anything outside of, well, actual LARPing events and stuff.

>>3261940
What do people mean when they casually talk about the stone age, bronze age and iron age? The overlap of years seem to be so enormous as to make the terms almost useless. I know it also differs between regions. But if we're just talking the most widely used definition, where do these ages start and end?

>>3264026
you have to be 18 to be here.

>>3263925
>romans
>bronze age

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>>3263653

>>3264694
>neolithic
Starts with framing, circa 10,000BC
>bronze age
Starts with bronze, ends with the bronze age collapse
>iron age
Starts slightly before the end of the bronze age but there's very little overlap

>>3262853

I have a soft spot for Krokodilopolis. In Meluhha, probably Harrapa.

>>3261940
Why is that your thread is off to a good start but I try making a thread about the bronze age and get almost no replies?

>>3262946

Probably more so, actually. We have centuries of Assyriology and archeology to fill in the blanks, they had, what? Homer? The Old Myths in the Bible? Very little was known about the ancient world by the classical age, Hell, one of the major players (the Hittites) were completely forgotten until modern times.

>>3264009

It was actually tin that was the limiting factor, there was plenty of copper on Cyprus.

>>3264173

Bronze is easy to recycle, you just have to melt a broken bronze sword down and viola, new sword / tool / whatever.

>>3264769

It's because we have a secret pact to ignore your threads.

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Oxus civilization = the goat tier

>>3264779
Tin was either mined from the local scant sources or imported from Afghanistan, interestingly enough Afghanistan was home to the Oxus civilization

>>3264791

Afghanistan and Britain, tho the British tin mostly went to north European bronze-making cultures about which little is known sine they left no writing. The bronze age was an age of long distance trade, something its easy to forget because the iron age that followed it was so autarchic.

It's like a more alien version of antiquity that we know even less about, like a fantasy version of what we think about as the ancient world. Of course it's alluring. It also makes one wonder how the next hundreds of years would have looked like if there wasn't this incredible systems collapse.
After all, in our age we've only known progress, it's only ever become better and richer and more technologically advanced, so it's stunning to us that it's possible to have such a setback and actually lose knowledge.

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Late bronze age trade routes 1400-1100 bc

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Late bronze age Europe

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>>3264791
That pic reminds me of Chan chan.

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Lots of upper middle class home owners have stone lions flanking the entrance of their mcmansions.

I wonder how many of them realize they're perpetuating a bronze age meme.

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>>3264803
Pic related is a golden cup from Bronze Age Cornwall (an area with large reserves of tin), supposedly bearing great similarities to those found from Mycenaean Greece
Evidence of trade links? Perhaps

>>3265307
Probably indirect trade, a Syrian like idol was found in the Baltic but it doesn't mean it was thanks to direct trade.

For direct trade you need foreign pottery being found at the site, if locally made pottery is found as well then it's direct trade, especially if the pottery itself doesn't hold much value (such as rough burnished ware) .

The furthest west Mycenean pottery was ever found is Iberia and even there it probably was brought there by a third party according to most archaeologists.

>>3264830
based lusatian culture, too bad it was replaced by germaniggers

>>3262062
Cancer age. Everything causes Cancer now.

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>>3265324
They were pretty based

>>3264144
Sardinia wasn't settled until the 18th century though due to its remote location

>>3262767
>mesopotamia
you have Uruk and Babylon to look forward to, seems pretty dank to me

also hope that Gilgamesj senpai notices me

>>3261949
The problem was that its components, especially tin, were hard to find, and depended upon safe trade networks to bring together. Your supply of bronze depends entirely upon how much tin you have access to.

>>3265661
underrated post

>>3265661
Wrong. Romans and Vandals were already there.

>>3262767
Minoan hands down

>>3265884
They didn't have ships though....

>>3266031
What the fuck are you talking about?

>>3266041
People could not reach remote islands like Sardinia by boat before like 18th century, suckers where to primitive to sail out of sight of coast.

>>3266072
Now I know you're baiting.

>>3261949
No. Population had been growing since the neolithic so they needed more and more materials. One of the main reasons for iron age was actually that they were running out of easily accessible copper and tin ore.

>>3264769
Happens to me too

>>3264772
Those oral traditions were more descriptive than people think

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>>3265884

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>>3262062
It's Oil Age, everything in today's world comes from oil.

this
>>3262193


> plastics
> transport
> weapons powered by oil

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BRAAAAAP

>>3264329
t. brainlet

>>3262193

Not really, for energy (petroleum's #1 use) we'll move to nuclear while corn-based plastics and composite ceramics take over as materials.

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?

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>>3262149
do a little research before you open your mouth dimwit! these shields are from the national museum of Denmark, they are not celtic!

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>>3266840
This guy and an almost identical twin were found just 3 years ago, there is still a lot to uncover

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>>3266851

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>>3262042
>Oh damn so they had more than they knew what to do with, shit
>>3264250
>Oh nevermind apparently it was a luxury
>>3264009
>Makes sense given the copper shortage
>>3265818
>Nevermind I guess it's tin

Nothing quite like /his/ to keep me informed

>>3263651
>>3262404
>implying anything we do will be remembered and this age won't be viewed as a historical dark-age akin to the mysterious bronze age collapse as future generations pull their hair in frustration lamenting "WHY DID THOSE MORONS DECIDE TO STOP RECORDING THINGS ON PHYSICAL MEDIA? WE HAVE LITERALLY NO IDEA WHAT EVENTS LED UP TO OUR CURRENT EXISTENCE IN AN IRRADIAED HELLSCAPE! WHAT DID YOU ASSHOLES DO?!?!".

Perhaps the legend of the hacker 4chan will live on as some kind of mysterious trickster spirit akin to Loki but that's about all you can hope for.

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>>3266901
There was no copper shortage, simply iron slowly took over, small iron tools and little blades were found in Anatolia and some other regions of the Near East since like 2000 or 1800 bc, later iron objects start appearing in the Central Mediterranean too since 1300-1200 bc thanks to contacts with Cypriots

https://www.academia.edu/2061542/Metallurgy_in_Italy_between_the_Late_Bronze_Age_and_the_Early_Iron_Age_the_Coming_of_Iron

Slowly, very slowly iron took over, around 1100-1000 bc iron weapons start becoming more common in the Levant, especially in Phoenician contexts, and start becoming prevalent over bronze, by 1000-800 bc iron becomes prevalent for swords in the Near East

>>3262038
I sure hope you're merely pretending

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>>3266930
>Slowly, very slowly iron took over, around 1100-1000 bc iron weapons start becoming more common in the Levant, especially in Phoenician contexts, and start becoming prevalent over bronze, by 1000-800 bc iron becomes prevalent for swords in the Near East
By 800BC the Irish are also using it, pic related.

>>3266943
Yeah but I doubt it was prevalent over bronze

>>3266194
that's a bad meme. here's an example of how bad oral traditions are at preserving information: the conquest of Canaan and much of the Judges period occurs while Egypt fucking ruled over Canaan.

>>3266957
Literally everything in the Bible before the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem is a load of horseshit.

>>3266947
Yeah.

> no man is an island

They obviously were influenced by trade as attested in the proper Iron Age circa 500BC when there is evidence for direct trade with the Mediterranean > N.Africa.

>>3266943
there are iron weapons from before iron working was introduced to an area from people working with meteorite iron. I don't know much about the spread of iron working but that seems a little odd for Ireland to have iron working at that time.

>>3266996
It had a 1000 years history of metalworking before this, so I don't think it is odd for them to experiment with the latest innovations.

>>3266964
not true. Kings preserves many confirmed historical events, although often with ideological spin. Kings preserves an authentic account of Sennacherib's seige of Jerusalem (followed by a fictional story made to make Hezekiah look good), Meshe's rebellion against Israel, and Shishaq's invasion of Canaan (to a limited extent). tons of kings from Kings are independently confirmed from Assyrian accounts, such as Ahab, Jehu, Hezekiah, and Manasseh. David and Solomon are more controversial but they are agreed by scholars to have existed.

>>3265334
God damn that looks comfy as fuck.

>>3266930
Iron took over because it was easier tot make when trade routes Came under pressure because of the collapse and because there was more of it

Brons swords might have been of better Quality but 10.000 bronze swords VS 20.000 iron swords isn't much of a fight

>>3266720
fuuuck, I'm such a newfag

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>>3266930
if the sea trade routes of the bronze age were cut by the bronze age collapse of the major powers of course there would be a copper shortage
Coppers not even an issue its Tin. Egypt had to import its tin from Cornwall.
They wouldn't have switched to iron unless there was a shortage as early iron tools would have no advantages to early peoples eyes and would have been harder to produce as you cant just cast an iron sword it needs to be heat treated nor can you just recast it if you mess up

>>3267038
Egypt imported tin from Afganistan, not Cornwall, while in the central Med tin was mostly imported from Iberia

Metal production industry here.

Bronze fascinates me, in particular when you look at bronze alloys aside from the standard copper/tin/lead mix that was primarily used in antiquity. Phosphorous/aluminium and manganese bronzes actually have some properties that beat out steel for weapons and provide an overall better balance of material properties.

For example some modern tech bronzes have harnesses similar to 1095 which is a common knife or sword making steel, but also have higher tensile strength, shock dampening and toughness giving them an edge in certain circumstances also they don't rust or corrode no matter how badly you look after them. - try leaving your steel knife out in the rain overnight and see how it looks the next day.

Also for metalworking bronze and copper are far superior artistic metals in that they are easily workable and castable - i think this leads to people being more prone to making good art out of them.

Also as someone who has cast their own items out of bronze and also made items out of steel using a forge I can tell you that you don't give a fuck about the nice steel knife you just made over the shitty blob of gold looking metal you just poured while liquid into a mould.

>>3266957
The odyssey isn't attempting to lay claim to homeland or set religious rules

>>3264804
What knowledge was really lost in the bronze age collapse tho? To me it seems like the iron age starts right where the bronze age left off.

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>>3267104
For reference, an aluminium bronze knife I cast and a 1095 steel dirk I got bored of working on, both ave been sitting in a dry toolbox for 2 or so months, both were polish finish when I put them into the toolbox - the blueing on the bronze is from angle grinder heat and is not a result of deterioration.

>>3267148
Megalithic building

>>3267148
We can make this stuff now using computer controlled forges and tooling.

Bronze age people did it by hand and were 70% as good as us at delivering on function. All with a completely different understanding of science as we know it and basic tools compared to us. - while we have surpassed them I'm sure that any metallurgist would learn by sitting down with a master bronze age craftsman.

>>3262062
I would say "Information Age".

>>3267078
The tin in Cornwall was traded throughout western Europe and then further traded beyond.Although not their main source Egyptian bronze has been shown to have tin from Cornwall.

>>3266922
We won't have any nuclear wars but there seems to be literally 0 interest in backwards compatibility on the part of the corporate overlords running our world and or in the average common man, so I can certainty see most of the redundant information we've recorded, and some of the important one, which for the most part is all piled up in a handful of locations around the world, just getting lost to time.

Definitely a good idea to backup and make copies of anything you believe to be important.

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>>3262062
>>3267183
>yfw future civilizations refer to us as the coke can culture as none of are written text lasted on computers

>>3267171
Isn't it more likely that they just couldn't afford to built them, rather than them not knowing how to do it?

They started doing it again by like 500 b.C after all, right?

>>3267203
Well, get to work then nig-nog.

>>3262062
Welcome to the New Age.

>>3267208
No

>>3262062
Wouldn't it be hilarious if all the things that are said to cause cancer actually DO cause it? And like 50 years from now they're like
"woah what the fuck, 95% of our elderly population has cancer holy shit we're fucked"

>>3267240
>"woah what the fuck, 95% of our elderly population has cancer holy shit we're saved"

Just a slight correction.

>>3267240
I think it would be more hilarious to see the reaction of the archaeologist digging up the graves in 500-1000 years. Bonus points if no proper record is kept.

It's mysterious, it had advanced civilizations in many ways either equal or superior to the Greeks or Republican Romans despite being 1,000+ years earlier. The international system of trade and diplomacy and spheres of influence before the collapse seemed a lot more modern than the existential conquests of usual antiquity. I don't agree with the idea that no collapse meant we'd be further into future technology, but no collapse definitely would have meant the high culture/science/architecture of what we usually think of for greco-Roman antiquity would have arrived sooner.

>>3267148

Greece basically reverted back to pseudo stone age society with the collapse of the Mycenaeans. Lost their written script and bureaucratic systems of governance. Took a course on Greece taught by the soldiers and ghost authors JE Lendon. Wish I had remembered to look up the archaeological slide he referenced in class but it was the Pylos/Messenia region and archaeological finds demonstrating a village/settlement/farmstead in the late bronze age and then later in the Greek dark ages. It had something like +117 settlement finds in the late bronze age. It had something like 15 in the dark age.

>>3267217
Ok :(

>>3267262
That trends reminds me of what we can see after the fall of Rome tho, and in that case the economical situation was the real cause of the apparent regress, tho, not a lack of knowledge on how to do the things.

>>3264014
Really? Awesome.

>>3267286
They also had ice warehouses. Letters found from ancient sumeria talk about making sure servants remove the twigs and shit from the ice

>>3262767
Minoan, then Sumerian

>>3267253
A common joke I have with my colleagues is discussing what random shit we'd put in our caskets, such as Paleo-Indian points or Woodland ceramics, just to fuck with the archaeologist who finds us.
One guy wanted to turn his into a giant snake-in-a-can and scare the archaeologist shitless.

Two points.
You lose tin when you recast bronze.
Fall of bronze age happen in similar time frame with supposedly Aryan invasion in India.

>>3267832
>Fall of bronze age happen in similar time frame with supposedly Aryan invasion in India.

Not sure why it would matter.

What do you guys think of that whole theory that maybe there was trade between West Africa and the Americas?

>>3263925
Bell Beakers were most likely for 'ritual beverage consumption', i.e meeting in a big roundhouse and getting pissed.

>>3268328
Who were the Beakers, were they from the Steppe? I know they were Indo European, but were they from the steppe if Corded Ware is responsible for majority of steppe admixture in Europe, despite Western Europe being R1b rich.

>>3268339
Beaker pottery probably originated in Iberia, it spread North to west europe and England, east to Sardinia and Sicily and south to parts of Morocco

>>3262767
Minoan. They kept their tits out.

>>3267918
Bullshit because Africans and Americans on Atlantic coast have never been able to build seaworthy boats.

>>3266804
Ayy lmao

>>3262767
Fucking tartessus all the way

>>3269083
That's iron age

>>3262946
and yet certain surprising details were remembered with clarity, like Odyseus' boar tooth helmet in the Iliad. That kind of armor was not used after the collapse, and would not have been used for possibly 400 years or more

>>3266090

>anon posts well known /his/ meme
>HURR BAIT

kek you got him detective

>>3262062
Glue age
Seriously, modern glues are awesome. From missiles to shoes.

>>3269099
There's a boar tusk helmet from 900 BC found in italy so though It wasn't popular anymore It wasn't completely gone

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It's interesting the research that is going into the Nordic bronze age.

http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/unexpected-and-gruesome-battle-1250-bc-involved-4000-men-across-northern-020781

>>3262062
fuck you

don't remind me

>>3262767
Egypt ofc

>>3261949
The guy to the left looks like a manlet Space Marine

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>>3269359
>Nordic
>Bronze Age

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>>3269359
>nordic
>Bronze Age

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>>3269359
>Nordic
>Bronze Age.

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>>3269359
>Nordic
>Bronze Age

>>3269555
>>3269558
>>3269560
>>3269572
this is pretty cringy

>>3269555
>>3269558
>>3269560
>>3269572
Stop it with your reddit tier autism

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>>3269572
>>3269560
>>3269558
>>3269555

>>3268402
Nice

>>3266846
DO your own research, retard

The sword are Celtic and the Carnyx are QUINTESSENTIALLY CELTIC

>>3269359
The sky god Taranis is typically depicted with the attribute of a spoked wheel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trundholm_sun_chariot
Nord BTFO

>>3267104
>>3267155
Underrated posts.

>For example some modern tech bronzes have harnesses similar to 1095 which is a common knife or sword making steel, but also have higher tensile strength, shock dampening and toughness giving them an edge in certain circumstances

Could you see these modern bronzes ever driving out stainless steel in kitchenware? I know that ceramic blades are already becoming popular.

>>3269555
>>3269558
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>>3269572
samefag

>>3269221
what is the coolest glue you know of?

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>>3262767
Minoan

>>3263006
My favourite of those graffiti is the Meme Square, it shows how little has changed in human thinking.

>>3269803
I don't know much of anything about the metals industry, but I don't think they'd be cheaper. Bronze was common like 50 years ago, but nowadays plastics and ceramics seem to have replaced it.

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OH NO NO NO NO NO

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Which way, Bronze Age man?

>>3271136
What does this mean?

>>3267203
This is why people put up those historical markers with metal plaques. So that you'll at least have little 2-paragraph descriptions of important things located right where they happened.

>>3267420
>HA HA gotcha plaque at your feet in 10 different languages

>>3265324
You really hate nords and germanics.

>>3267203
Unless there's a massive societal collapse (and then they won't be doing archeology for a long time anyways) I'm sure they'll have a way to do internet archeology or at the very least computer archeology. Even today info in broken disks and pendrive can be recovered, moreso in the future. Of course most stuff will be lost forever but that's the normal thing in archeology.

>>3264014
Did they work like modern bars? As in, there was actual ancient nightlife? Did this survive after the bronze age with beer bars existing around pre-islamic middle east?

>>3262193
I think we'll be able to push back the true oil catastrophe beyond our lifetimes. as disastrous as we know it will be if and when it runs out without a good alternative, there is still a fucking fuckton left which will be collected and used with ever increasing efficiency. we're boned without it but i'm optimistic there's enough left for our decadent generation to ride into hell on.

>>3271981
How would you ever know that? You can only speculate, really. I doubt there would be any actual 'nightlife' in the sense you see it today because of general scarcity of light sources way back then and the rhythm of the lives people led that revolved around working as much as possible while the sun is up. Beer was actually the safest way of taking in liquids and re-hydrating since pure water was scarce and you would sooner get sick from drinking river water than from drinking beer. Based on this, if you have to compare it to modern times, it would probably more resemble pub culture in Britain where majority of neighbors would meet and spend their afternoons.

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the origins of copper used by Nordic bronze age peoples

>>3269572
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>>3269558
>>3269555

What a huge retard

I always throw coins i dont need in fields or on dirt patches and cover it up so someday maybe a future archeologist will find the coins

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>>3262193
I TRIED WARNING YOU

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>>3262767
China.

Its the furthest from the Bronze Age Collapse after all.

>>3266840
Bronze age festival goer trying to fold up a pop-up tent.

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Starting from the XIIIth century bc these niggas had to abandon their rich coastal settlements and hid in the interior parts of the island on fortified hill/mountain settlements

The settlements in the south coasts remained abandoned for several centuries
My question is one:

Who were they hiding from?

>>3271843
>>3271928
i sincerely hope much of are technological advancements of the past 200 years are indeed achievements no society will forget such as fire ,swords , firearms or farming.

>>3273168
>who
Try what.

>>3273739
?

>>3273168
the sea peoples?
thats are best guess right?

>>3271136
DYEUS PATER

>>3271928
>>3273732
There are thankfully people dedicated to preserving computer history, otherwise we'd be fucked, since people just think of tech and computers as something that you use and then throw away.

>>3262062
post-capitalism age, soon

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>>3269572
>>3269560
>>3269558
>>3269555
this is so stupid

>>3270565
Are those blue eyes?

>>3271136
MOTHER EARTH

FATHER THUNDER