Macedonians used leather helmets?

[Giannis K. Hoplite]

I hadn't seen that from Herculaneum! It's great! have you got a higher resolution image?
Caracalla's ewuipment was propaganda. You don't need to be accurate for this. You just need anyone THINK OF what you're presenting,in this case,Alexander's troops. It has a significance that he equiped them this way,only because it shows what was the comon perception of what these famous heroes looked like. Also, leather helmets must have been much cheaper,thus you can use them and produce them massively with lower cost,and if everyone believe this is what macedonians looked like,that's it! Similar to modern bad re-enacting. It's wrong to investigate and compare our original archaeological sources with how Caracalla equiped his soldiers,and try to find that thet were indeed equiped identically like that,or if they didn't(and of course they didn't), dismiss Caracalla's soliers as completely inaccurate.I can't resist here to mention again the perception of macedonian "linen corslets"
Khaire
Giannis