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3,900 Year Old Bone Armour - Vindex - 09-08-2014
Not really a category for this...
http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/features/warriors-3900-year-old-suit-of-bone-armour-unearthed-in-omsk/
Amazing find!
3,900 Year Old Bone Armour - Crispianus - 09-08-2014
Maybe this book is of interest there's some similar armour in it.... a bit clunky and old the book that is ;-)
https://archive.org/details/primitiveamerica00houg
3,900 Year Old Bone Armour - Dan Howard - 09-08-2014
The ones in that book are made from wood or ivory. Bone is very brittle and pretty useless as an armouring material. Perhaps they have misidentified the material and it is really some kind of horn.
3,900 Year Old Bone Armour - Dan D'Silva - 09-09-2014
What I'm wondering is aren't the drawings at the top of the article from a different find?
3,900 Year Old Bone Armour - Dan Howard - 09-09-2014
Quote:What I'm wondering is aren't the drawings at the top of the article from a different find?
Yep. It is a common typoology in the north - both in north America and north Asia. They are just assuming that these bone splints can be assembled into the same type of armour. We won't know until they piece everything together. It is a pretty cool find in any case.
3,900 Year Old Bone Armour - Dan D'Silva - 09-09-2014
True. But even if it is the same type of armor, it's sloppy writing to find an older image and imply that it's a reconstruction of this specific object.
3,900 Year Old Bone Armour - Michael Kerr - 09-09-2014
The diagrams at the top of the article and the reconstruction are taken out of a Russian book Siberian Warriors and Weapons which unfortunately I do not understand but it was printed in 2003 and the images are quite good. Included a closeup of the knife the warrior depicted in the top image of Siberian Times page is holding. :-)
[attachment=10717]SiberianWariorsandWeapons.jpg[/attachment]
[attachment=10718]blade.jpg[/attachment]
Regards
Michael Kerr
3,900 Year Old Bone Armour - Dan Howard - 09-09-2014
This comes from the book to which Ivor linked. It is made from ivory and comes from the Bering Strait region.
3,900 Year Old Bone Armour - Dan Howard - 09-09-2014
More leather armour and arm bracers. With studs and everything. I thought Hollywood had a patent on that.