Hi all with the permission by the mods on r/Nordiccountries,to post this, We have started a new Subreddit r/Vikingnorse a sub about Nordic History, facts, finds from the Nordic Bronze Age, Iron Age, Viking age and middle age 1050-1536 photo I took today at Vestermarie church,Bornholm.
Did Middle-Earth have a stone age and bronze age?
I was just thinking about the timeline of the history of Middle-Earth, and how humans had been around for about 6,000 years (I think) before the events of The Lord of the Rings.
I envisage Middle-Earth at the time of The Lord of the Rings to be Medieval in technology, with steel swords, etc.
6,000 years before our middle ages we were still in the Stone Age.
Did Middle-Earth humans start at the stone age and proceed as we did in the real world, or did they start medieval and stay that way for 6,000 years?
Thanks!
Edited for clarity.
Celtic languages might have reached Britain as much as 1000 years earlier than expected. A previously unrecognized, large-scale migration from continental Europe into Great Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age may have facilitated the spread of early Celtic languages. nature.com/articles/s4158β¦
A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea. nature.com/articles/s4159β¦
People of Middle and Late Bronze age in North Caucasus and Armenia reddit.com/gallery/qvutxf
The Brockagh Axe dates from the Middle Bronze Age (ca. 1600 BC) and was discovered deep within a peat bog in Co. Kildare, Ireland. The leather pouch suggests that it was used as a hand-tool. National Museum of Ireland, Dublin. (640x515)
Research finds evidence of a cosmic airburst destroying a city in the Middle Bronze Age (about 3,600 years ago, roughly 1650 BCE) The settlement in its time had become the largest continuously occupied Bronze Age city in the southern Levant, having hosted early civilization for a few thousand years. news.ucsb.edu/2021/020400β¦
A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea nature.com/articles/s4159β¦
A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea nature.com/articles/s4159β¦
Royal Tomb Treasures from Qatna | Ancient Levant, Kingdom of Qatna | Middle/Late Bronze Age | National Museum of Damascus, Syria | Photo by Marc Steinmetz | more in the 1st comment
A gold armlet found in the Charente Maritime, France. Middle Bronze Age, 1500-1250 BCE, now part of the George Ortiz collection [723x803]
Middle Bronze Age Faience Feline-Headed Cup - Near Eastern Β· Middle Bronze Age (17th-16th century B.C.)[650x650]
A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea nature.com/articles/s4159β¦
A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea nature.com/articles/s4159β¦
A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea nature.com/articles/s4159β¦
A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea nature.com/articles/s4159β¦
The Middle Kingdom Egyptians use to trade Hippo tusk Ivory to other societies around the Mediterranean. Hippos are hard to kill with modern guns, how did the Egyptians hunt them with Bronze Age weapons?
Bronze/Iron Age Economics in the Middle East
Greetings, all.
I'm a Jewish Studies teacher in the United States. A student of mine reading a section of Genesis involving a first-born son's birthright asked about contemporaneous concepts of ownership and debt in the region. I'm curious if anyone can recommend any readings on the topic.
A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea doi.org/10.1038/s41598-02β¦
A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea - "There is an ongoing debate as to whether Tall el-Hammam could be the biblical city of Sodom" reddit.com/r/Archeology/cβ¦
This is not a middle-aged guy tired from traveling - it's a bronze sculpture in an airport.
A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea nature.com/articles/s4159β¦
A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea nature.com/articles/s4159β¦
Archeology: A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea nature.com/articles/s4159β¦
The Bronze Age Collapsen't: The Middle East
Lachish Temple Sheds New Light on Canaanite Religion Tel Lachish was an important Canaanite city-state that controlled a main road connecting the Mediterranean coastal plain with Hebron and Jerusalem during the Middle and Late Bronze Ages. biblicalarchaeology.org/dβ¦
A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea (in 1650 bce) (βTunguska-scale airbursts can devastate entire cities/regions and thus, pose a severe modern-day hazard.β) nature.com/articles/s4159β¦
A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea (in 1650 bce) (βTunguska-scale airbursts can devastate entire cities/regions and thus, pose a severe modern-day hazard.β) nature.com/articles/s4159β¦
Like how Roman bronze statues were melted for cannons in the Middle Ages, iron and steel in modern skyscrapers may one day be recast into things we cannot fathom.
During the Bronze Age in the Middle East, how did soldiers actually get equipped and supplied? What was the economic machinery of war? Who was making their weapons, who had what sort of weapons, how were their supplies collected, who brought them their supplies, and so on?
Was there ever a case of a ruler running out of bronze? Were there rulers who had to import bronze? How much of a limiting factor was this? What was the cost of a bronze-tipped spear in modern currency?
Bronze Age Armour & Weapons in a Medieval/Middle Ages Society?
Is it possible for an Earth-like setting to have a medieval/middle ages lifestyle (architecture, aesthetic, social structure) but still have predominantly bronze as the metal of that time?
I am trying to create a fantasy setting where everyone has armour and weapons made of bronze because iron is rarer than gold and only extremely wealthy or extremely powerful people have them. The historical Bronze Age weapons and armour are also very cool so I wanted to use them in stories more.
So, is it possible for society to progress into the middle ages in a social sense but for their weapons technology to remain in the bronze age? Is there some science-plothole I'm missing that might replace bronze as the main metal?
BTW, this is inspired by (insert: that one cool post on r/Fantasy about how there's untapped potential in the Bronze Age for anime).
Sorry if this doesn't make sense. If it doesn't please lmk in the comments. :)
Rock and Roll the middle age. The Bronze Bard is ready to create ruckus in the battle field. reddit.com/gallery/mo6109
Bronze appears to feature prominently in antiquity alongside iron, especially in the arms industry but appears to have largely disappeared in the Middle Ages, before finding new life in artillery production. Why did it seemingly fall out of favor and what was the role of bronze in Medieval Europe?
The Phaistos Disk. Made of fired clay from the Minoan palace of Phaistos on the island of Crete, possibly dating to the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age (between 1850 B.C. and 1600 B.C). Many attempts have been made to decipher the code behind the disc's signs. [1920x1430]
How did medieval Bronze Age societies in the Middle East get tin? What was the process of importing it like?
[OC] A questionably categorized list of goods that have been traded from the bronze age to the middle ages. Hope you can use it to breathe more life into your worldbuilding projects!
Dartmoor NPA - Reaves, Roundhouses, and Dartmoor's Middle Bronze Age- an online talk youtube.com/watch?v=jgcXuβ¦
Hippopotamus Ivory Figure with Hathor-style wig, from Anatolia, Middle Bronze Age
Take a look at this! This is from viking age! (793-1066) It was used as a way to measure gold and other precious metal to find it's value. You can see the sun cross in the middle. It weighs 24.8g, has an Iron core with bronze alloy. Found last week in Norway.
Men-an-Tol - A bronze age site that consists of three upright granite stones: A round stone with the middle holed out and two standing stones, one in front of the hole and the other behind it. Madron to Morvah road in Cornwall, England.
The Phaistos Disk. Made of fired clay from the Minoan palace of Phaistos on the island of Crete, possibly dating to the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age (between 1850 B.C. and 1600 B.C). Many attempts have been made to decipher the code behind the disc's signs. [1920x1430]
Qarahunj (ΥΥ‘ΦΥ‘Υ°ΥΈΦΥΆΥ»). Middle Bronze Age to Iron Age. Near Sisian, Syunik. reddit.com/gallery/lgq8f3
Men-an-Tol - A bronze age site that consists of three upright granite stones: A round stone with the middle holed out and two standing stones, one in front of the hole and the other behind it. Madron to Morvah road in Cornwall, England.
The "Guadalajara sword," with copper blade and gold hilt, from middle Bronze Age Spain c 1600-1300 BC [2762 x 3683] [OC]; more pics in comments
Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Middle Ages. Dark Ages. What Age do you think weβre in now?
