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<blockquote data-quote="John Morrow" data-source="post: 2350356" data-attributes="member: 27012"><p>Do Google searches but a lot of going to depend on which part of the world you are looking for. The weapons of the Shang Bronze Age are a bit different from those of the Egyptian Bronze Age, the Aegean Bronze Age, the British Bronze Age, etc. This might be a good place to start, though:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.larp.com/hoplite/BAweapons.html" target="_blank">http://www.larp.com/hoplite/BAweapons.html</a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>If you are willing to get books, Osprey is always a good place to start for information on weapons and armor for almost any period.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.ospreypublishing.com/list_by_period.php/per=40" target="_blank">http://www.ospreypublishing.com/list_by_period.php/per=40</a></p><p></p><p>I also highly recommend Peter Connolly's books on the Ancient World (often listed as children's books, but great and accurate art), including:</p><p></p><p><u>Greece and Rome at War</u></p><p><u>The Ancient Greece of Odysseus</u></p><p><u>Greek Legends: The Stories, The Evidence</u></p><p></p><p>You can also get a lot of food for thought on Bronze Age arms and warfare by watching the Michael Wood's 1985 BBC series <u>In Search of the Trojan War</u> (available on DVD -- includes an interview with Peter Connolly) that includes some discussions of weapons and armor and the speculations about Bronze Age warfare in Robert Drews' <u>The End of the Bronze Age</u>.</p><p></p><p>FYI, there were also a series of documentaries on the Trojan War and the Aegean Bronze Age that accompanied the release of the movie Troy, including a two-hour documentary where they actually did tests with Bronze Age weapons on various targets to determine how much damage they could do and effective range. It included hacking on a pig carcass with a bronze sword, demonstrating why one doesn't parry with a bronze sword, why there are descriptions of people stepping on their bronze swords to straighten them in battle, and why people still relied on spears so much.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John Morrow, post: 2350356, member: 27012"] Do Google searches but a lot of going to depend on which part of the world you are looking for. The weapons of the Shang Bronze Age are a bit different from those of the Egyptian Bronze Age, the Aegean Bronze Age, the British Bronze Age, etc. This might be a good place to start, though: [url]http://www.larp.com/hoplite/BAweapons.html[/url] If you are willing to get books, Osprey is always a good place to start for information on weapons and armor for almost any period. [url]http://www.ospreypublishing.com/list_by_period.php/per=40[/url] I also highly recommend Peter Connolly's books on the Ancient World (often listed as children's books, but great and accurate art), including: [u]Greece and Rome at War[/u] [u]The Ancient Greece of Odysseus[/u] [u]Greek Legends: The Stories, The Evidence[/u] You can also get a lot of food for thought on Bronze Age arms and warfare by watching the Michael Wood's 1985 BBC series [u]In Search of the Trojan War[/u] (available on DVD -- includes an interview with Peter Connolly) that includes some discussions of weapons and armor and the speculations about Bronze Age warfare in Robert Drews' [u]The End of the Bronze Age[/u]. FYI, there were also a series of documentaries on the Trojan War and the Aegean Bronze Age that accompanied the release of the movie Troy, including a two-hour documentary where they actually did tests with Bronze Age weapons on various targets to determine how much damage they could do and effective range. It included hacking on a pig carcass with a bronze sword, demonstrating why one doesn't parry with a bronze sword, why there are descriptions of people stepping on their bronze swords to straighten them in battle, and why people still relied on spears so much. [/QUOTE]
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