Bronze

evidence for the argument of a Mycenaean invasion, as it is generally believed it replaced the pre-existing Linear A script. Cline, E. H. 2010. The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean (ca. 3000-1000BC), New York, Oxford University Press. In this article Cline…

the countries south of the Sahara, Nigeria dominates in the production of sculptured antiquities as it possesses nine-tenths of sculptures aged at greater than a century. The ancient city of Benin in Southern Nigeria has been revered as a source of bronze and ivory sculptures so elegantly crafted that Meyerowitz (1943) describes them as technically perfect. However, after the Benin Massacre and artifact looting of 1897, thousands of these sculptures were…

approximately 10 tons of copper and 1 ton of tin (the oldest that has ever been retrieved in its raw form) were discovered within the wreckage. These two materials when alloyed together would have made around 11 tons of bronze, an alloy that is strongly identified with the Bronze Age (Pulak…

people who lived in the general vicinity of england and some of the germanic areas and Im pretty sure you know what armour and weapons are, so I will just get to it. The first subject will be swords or “sweord” in old english it originated during the bronze age which is around 1600 B.C., the sword evolved from the dagger later turning into tons of various swords such as the rapier, cutlass, zweihander, sabers and the list can go on forever. Rapiers are a very long and thin sword that are meant…

In its earliest periods, the lands were divided and conquered by different lords and rulers. However, this drastically changed as centralized rule became prominent in China with the beginning of the Bronze age (1500B.C.). The power struggle amongst Chinese rulers were fulfilled by warfare; and the bronze age had the perfect conducive environment for this type of militaristic approach. The Shang dynasty (1600-1046 BC) was the first dynasty that both ruled China, and had left sufficient evidence…

Ceremonial Bronze Gui This is a ceremonial bronze gui that was used in the late 11th and early 10th century, during the Zhou dynasty. It is currently in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. The image is a bronze gui. A gui is a bowl that was used to hold offerings. The bowl-shaped item has 2 handles on either side which sits on a box like stand. The majority of the gui is engraved with different carvings. The gui is mainly a dark green/grey colour. The sculpture is symmetrical because all…

Dongson Drums: A Snapshot of the Village Life in Bronze Age Vietnam Thesis Statement: Although many scholars believe that the feathered figures on the drums are depictions of ancestor figures, ethnographic evidences from the Karen’s use of the drum and the Toraja’s funeral rites suggest that the images engraved on the drums are mere portrayals of village life in Dongson. Located in the Hong (Red) River valley, the Dongson society is said to be highly dependent on water for agricultural purposes.…

Located in Room 12 and 12b in the British Museum, the Mycenaean Collection provides an amazing insight into the Greek Bronze Age, The Heroic Age, and Greek Mythology legends, especially the epics written by Homer. The collection features many artifacts of red and black painted pottery, bronzes from the Geometric Period, bronze figurines, and numerous artifacts that depict the Bronze age and how the Mycenaean people used Greek Mythology to decorate many objects and create incredible works of art…

Bronze age: (3200 BC) Bronze age was considering as an age of super power. The Bronze Age is a time period identify by the use of bronze, proto-composition, and other early elements of urban human advancement. The Bronze Age is the second main time of the three-age Stone-Bronze-Iron framework, as proposed in current circumstances by Christian Jorgensen Thomsen, for arranging and concentrate antiquated social orders. An antiquated human progress is characterized to be in the Bronze Age either by…

The Shang and Zhou dynasty coexisted and originated in China, around the Yellow / Huang He river in the Bronze era ( 1,700 bce ) and went on to exist for nearly 2,000 more years. Though these Dynasties weren’t in perfect peace and harmony with one another, they shared similar values and working methods in which made the two opposing dynasties very similar. Each pillar (social, political, interaction with the environment, cultural, and economics) had it’s own way of showing through in it’s time…