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Archaeology or archeology[a] is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes.
Archaeology has various goals, which range from understanding culture history to reconstructing past lifeways to documenting and explaining changes in human societies through time.
The discipline involves surveying, excavation, and eventually analysis of data collected, to learn more about the past. In broad scope, archaeology relies on cross-disciplinary research. Read more...
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I mean, it's silly, but it looks pretty effective
It doesn't even look that silly.
I immediately pictured Nandor the Relentless...
But like, we know from writings they had plate armor, we know from paintings this is what it looked like, it's just archeologists insisted it wasn't used because most soldiers weren't buried with functional sets.
It's like 5,000 years from now people saying we didn't have tanks because no soldiers were buried with a tank.
A fighter in this armor at this time, was essentially that. A fucking tank.
And most military members don't own their own personal tank.
This example, is because for whatever reason, one did back then. Probably more likely to be some incredibly rich ruler who would attend battle sites while in the best possible armor, but wasn't ever going to swing a sword while wearing it.
If a normal soldier died wearing this, the government would repair the armor and issue it to a new soldier.
That one guy buried with a tank was the Mycenean Prighozhin. Richer than sense.
Burry me with my ERA
Do we, though? The article says “warriors were prominently featured in the Mycenaean art with numerous depictions showing their helmets, swords, spears, bows, and arrows in great detail. Armors, however, were mysteriously absent.”