Bronze Age

A fascinating new study chronicles the family histories of European Bronze Age households, revealing the presence of surprising marital practices,

concepts of armors of tier 3 warriors (royal guard)

Some quick explorations based on the last character I did. https://www.artstation.com/artwork/B1zGO4 They are supposed to exist during the end of their world's Bronze Age. While bronze is still widely used, iron is slowly starting to replace it, while gold is the metal of choice for accessories.

Indo-European warrior from eneolithic Ukraine's Yamnaya or Pit-Grave culture bearing bronze spear and daggers and a stone battle axe. He is wearing ochre war paint and silver hair coils. Art by Christian Sloan Hall

A little more history, with surprises thrown in, particularly towards the end. I've been enjoying exploring a historical rendering of my game world. Most of this has been in my head for decades, but it's never been thoroughly written out. By the late Neolithic period in Europe, six dominant cultural regions had formed: a) Danubian cultures, from the Rhine to the Black Sea; b) Mediterranean cultures, from the Adriatic to eastern Iberia, including large portions of the Alps; c) Thessaly and…

LATE BRONZE AGE IRISH CHIEFTAIN. The Bronze Age in Ireland approximately lasted from 2500 BC to 500 BC. The material culture of the British Isles during the Late Bronze Age was part of a wider Atlantic system that extended along the western coast of France to western Spain and Portugal, which was different from the material cultures of the contemporary Nordic Bronze Age and the Urnfield culture of Central Europe and Italy. This chieftain wears a golden collar based on the Gleninsheen gorget…

Recreations of Bronze Age costume, jewelry, and other personal objects displayed in the Zapadoceske Museum, West Bohemia (Czech Republic).

The Bronze Age 2000-800 B.C.- Note;This chart refers to the bronze age "Indo-Europeans" as Germans, although many of the same artifacts have been labeled elsewhere as Celtic or Scandinavian....G. L. Freeman

During the Bronze Age, people started doing something that today might seem quite strange: they gathered up their precious objects and buried them in the ground, with absolutely no intention of coming back for them. We know this because many of the artefacts have been intentionally bent, broken or otherwise 'decommissioned' – they could never be used again. Many were also placed in or near water, not exactly the kind of place you'd put something for safe-keeping! This practice occurred…

Up to 10 to 15 years ago, the first settled life for human beings in terms of animal feeding and agriculture, the so called “Neolithic Age” society, was being marked in history as B.C. 9500 by the …