Scholarly papers on leather Hellenic body armor?

[Dan Howard]

It isn't all that complicated. Homer described a military conflict that most people agree occurred at the end of the Bronze Age. He said that linen armour was used by the Greeks during that conflict. We have a physical example of linen armour that was found in Greece and dates to the same time period. How can you claim that this armour wasn't used during that time but was really used five hundred years later?