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museums are full of decorative weapons but you rarely see ancient decorative tools. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by GregoryBluehorse@lemmy.world to c/casualconversation@lemmy.world

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We have a long history of celebrating violence by designing weapons that look really fucking cool while killing each other. How are you today?

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[–] dylanmorgan 4 points 1 year ago

From what I understand there are two factors here. First, “heroic” societies (societies that put a premium on violence and the ability to wield it), while comparatively less common than non-heroic societies, tended to celebrate leaders and bury them with their weapons or decorative replicas of them, while other societies did not. Second, there seems to be a bias in a lot of historians and archaeologists to focus on heroic societies rather than the more common agrarian and hunter-gatherer societies that existed contemporaneously with them.