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Does anyone know, where and when the first shields were made?
Patrick
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Re: Shield
Tue, April 28, 2009 - 8:50 AMThat depends on who you ask.
Even if they have a diagram on the back showing exactly how to use them and are penetrated with numerous pointy wood, flint and metal objects, there are lots of people who want us to believe they were really some other kind of tool for completely peaceful applications. -
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Re: Shield
Tue, April 28, 2009 - 3:16 PMOk, I can see that it could be hard to tell just what is a shield.
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Tue, April 28, 2009 - 5:42 PMOBMO, flat, wooden and full of knife-marks could as easily be describing a vigorously-used dinner table. What separates that from a shield? A handle? a nice iconic image painted on it? -
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Re: Shield
Thu, April 30, 2009 - 8:18 AMBut you know how it is.
If anyone found a dozen of the oversized bowls interior leather-strapped to the left forearms of dozen skeletons in a single site, with everything violently scraped and interpenetrated by pole-shaped cutting tools, still grasped in the bones of right hands, the first thought will always be 'what a bizarre gardening accident'... unless, of course, the decedents are believed to have been related to modern Europeans... -
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Thu, April 30, 2009 - 12:07 PM>>'what a bizarre gardening accident'.
HEE!!!
That's always my first thought when coming upon any inexplicable scene involving metal implements and scraped bone. -
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Mon, May 4, 2009 - 2:58 PMYou guys must be fun to garden with!!!!!!!!!!!
Patrick
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Re: Shield
Thu, May 14, 2009 - 9:16 AM>That's always my first thought when coming upon any inexplicable scene involving metal implements and scraped bone.
Also notice how the critters that bust open bones and dig out the marrow couldn't possibly know anything about anatomy (since only humans know anatomy), and yet they always seem to go straight for the femurs where the only good marrow is in adult humans.
Maybe they could smell it right through the other tissue?
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Re: Shield
Fri, May 15, 2009 - 10:54 PMThe reason I brought up the shield in the first place, is that it seem to me to be the first weapon that could only be used by man against other men. Once you have shields, you have war. It could were war first got it's start.
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Re: Shield
Sat, May 16, 2009 - 5:09 AMInteresting note: In my language,(Potawatomi) the word for rib is the same as for shield.
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