Dr. Alan Peatfield uses a bronze short sword on a melon.
Dr. Barry Molloy uses an Egyptian khephesh on rolled tatami mat, simulating a limb.
Drs. Peatfield and Molloy demonstrate the use of a khephesh against a shield. As far as I know, the man who breaks and runs on 0.19 is not doing so in fear of his life.
Sadly, I was not filming when a Very Eminent Scandinavian Prehistorian accidently almost opened up a woman's arm with a swing of a Bronze Age rapier - a near-miss that was not his fault, but still nearly took experimental archaeology onto a whole new level.
2 comments:
weird.
why is it that shape?
So that you can do the hooking-the-shield-down trick from the last video, and probably to enhance the cutting power.
Or, if you believe Robert Drews' "The End of the Bronze Age" (1993) - and you really shouldn't - its to make it easier to cut off the foreskins of dead opponents, which was the Egyptian method of counting casualties after a battle.
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