Historical Artifacts

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Just a community for everyone to share artifacts, reconstructions, or replicas for the historically-inclined to admire!

Generally, an artifact should be 100+ years old, but this is a flexible requirement if you find something rare and suitably linked to an era of history, not a strict rule. Anything over 100 is fair game regardless of rarity.

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Late Roman legionary re-enactor with plumbata, lead-weighted darts that replaced the javelin (lemmy.world)

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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Questions like that are often hotly debated in experimental archeology! My thinking is high, in a parabola, as they were meant as harassing weapons, but as far as I know there's no consensus.

[–] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 days ago

I mean, they are versatile, so they probably had different tactics that suited various engagements.