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

What's the evidence for Sea People wearing potted plants on their heads?

>>3282172
kek

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When your Bronze Age lasts into the 16th century you know you are into some shit.

>>3282172
its useful you can take a break mit battle and grab some berries from your headbush.

>>3284058
kek the guy on the right looks like he's crying

>>3281858
Bump

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>>3281858
Rock that headgear

>>3284058
Well, their bronze age started in the Ist century BC.

>>3282172
"The Proud Plant Helmets: A Concise History of the Sea People" by A Fucking Leaf. Canadian SJW Publications, 2007

>>3284954

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

>>3281858
See: HYKSOS

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

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>>3282172

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>>3282172
http://www.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.

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>>3285363

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.

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>>3285383

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.

>>3285028
That's wrong. They didn't use bronze before 100BC approximately. Why are you lying?

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>>3284058
fucking kek!
they all have the same expression!

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Hold it right there criminal scum

>>3282172
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

>>3285363
Yes but those were not sea peoples as far as we know at least, just myceneans

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>>3281858

>>3285430
>battle shorts
Nice.

>>3286970
>>3286980

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

>>3287107

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

>>3285225
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.

>>3285225
what's wrong with it, its a good sword

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Cretan fears the Sea Warrior

>>3287302
HOT

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>>3287244
The Greek Kopis (left) is theorized to be the decedent of the Egyptian Kopesh.

>>3285225
>implying you could stab properly with that
I'd rather just have a regular longsword.

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>>3284058

>>3281858

>Mad Max

not

>Conan the barbarian

niggla please

>>3288344

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

>>3287109
>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.

>>3287302
Sardinians invaded Crete

>>3287107
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

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I must complete the cow armor set.

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>>3281858
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.

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>>3288823
Who the fuck does these paintings? Is it one Chinese artist or Multiple people?

I really like the style

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>>3287648
>yfw nobody does good reproduction bronze weapons

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

>>3293608
Correct, they've also found an Egyptian scarab in a Nuragic individual tomb dated to 1300-950 bc

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>>3285383
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 /his/.

>>3285383
Why are most of them wearing Central European armor?

>>3293658
Achilles in pic does look like a pretty cool dude to hang around with. Would bro with

>>3288704
I thought the Mycenaeans did a hundred or so years later after the Thera eruption.

>>3287109
WE
WUZ
MARAUDERS
AND SHIIIEEEEEET

Best thread in a while
Good job OP

>>3288344
LindyBeige had one and said it stabs fine

>>3287050
>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.

>>3281858
The Sea People didnt exist

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>>3281858
>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"

>>3295124
False

>>3284058
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.

>>3287302
that's supposed to be diomedes thrusting his spear in aphrodite's wrist, right?

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>>3295138
That made me feel.

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>>3295138
>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

>>3284954
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahah

>>3288344
It's meant to flay unarmored dudes at arms length.

>>3287050
Why did his bones melt and sink into the rock?

>>3287050
>that bronze dick top.
He must have been gifted.

>>3288344
you can stab anyone with anything if you put your mind to it!

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>>3293658
I think you might be gay

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>>3295124
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

>>3287648
THATS FUCKING HYKSOS KOPIS YOU TWAT
THEY MADE THAT SWORD

>>3295524
Hyksos were West Semite speaking peoples probably from Amurru (Syria)

>>3287050
This guy wasn't Bronze age, he was Chalcolithic, like Otzi

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>>3295138
Thing never change, bro

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Mould for bronze axes

>>3295689
Now that's cool and handy

>>3295120
That's his codpiece, like you said... this is gold

>>3295332
I imagine it'd have to do with soil acidity

>>3295354
Wenches love gold

>>3295561
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

>>3285463
Fuck off back to /tg/, carnac

>>3295689
Stop trying to cover it up MacMasters, we all know that's a toaster.

>>3297389
Yeah but it's a toaster for axes

>>3288424
Conan the barbarian starts at greek city states and goes till the early ottoman empire.

>>3295417
Back to /r/communism