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I'm gonna say that arsenical bronze is way more likely for equipping an army than meteoric iron. Tutankhamun had a little tiny dagger made of it and he was one of the richest people in the world, with unusually good access to meteorites. (Because it's easier to find them laying on top of the desert sand than in a forest or prairie)
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The real answer is that it took like 800 years of metallurgy to make iron, especially armor, that was as good as bronze. But yeah, iron is easy to get.
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Oct 14, 2017 16:48
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Lead was used as sweetener in place of sugar. Edit: also this is all iron age, not bronze age
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Oct 19, 2017 21:06
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Or finding dinosaur fossils and assuming that somebody must have killed it.
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Oct 23, 2017 21:21
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Rutibex posted:i already tried my man, they just dont seem interested in the neolithic. this is bronze town. perhaps we should make our own neolithic thread, maybe give it a flintstones theme? Naw, I'm super into it. The real trick is to get people to stop talking about iron age things like Rome and Greece. Tell me about the big cities. Did Zuul wreck some faces?
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Oct 24, 2017 16:52
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I just spent my afternoon reading about the neolothic. Apparently in Jerico, the oldest still-occupied city on the planet, they would cut the head off important people after they died, cover it in clay to resemble him or her, and mount it on the wall of the house to give advice.
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Oct 24, 2017 21:05
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First came the temple, then came the city. People started farming instead of following the herds because they wanted to stay put and build big.
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Oct 25, 2017 00:46
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:There is this insane mysterious temple in Turkey that came way way before even farming villages and nobody gets it and nobody ever will. We've been posting about that already
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