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History => Ancient and Medieval History => Topic started by: Andreas Johansson on March 13, 2016, 08:16:53 PM

Title: First non-utilitarian weapons found in the Arabian Peninsula
Post by: Andreas Johansson on March 13, 2016, 08:16:53 PM
A collection of evidently non-functional bronze weapons have been found from Iron Age Oman:

http://phys.org/news/2016-03-non-utilitarian-weapons-arabian-peninsula.html
Title: Re: First non-utilitarian weapons found in the Arabian Peninsula
Post by: Erpingham on March 16, 2016, 07:05:18 PM
Do these shed any fresh light on armament and/or warfare of the region?
Title: Re: First non-utilitarian weapons found in the Arabian Peninsula
Post by: Duncan Head on March 16, 2016, 08:08:57 PM
Not a lot, I would say. We already knew that composite bows were used in eastern Arabia - eg http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1600-0471.2005.00255.x/abstract (which used to be free on academia.edu but isn't any more). I don't think we had a representation of the quivers before now.

I don't remember seeing an axehead like that from Arabia - reminds me of some Luristan axes.
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