Mycenaean bronze spear head from Tiryns Grave 28, 1050-1025 BC. Nafplion Archaeological Museum. Mycenaean archaeological finds suggest that both hun
Mycenaean bronze spear head from Tiryns Grave 28, 1050-1025 BC. Nafplion Archaeological Museum. Mycenaean archaeological finds suggest that both hunting and warfare played a crucial role in the symbolic representations of the Mycenaean Elites, Many Mycenaean burials of Elites contain Bronze weapons such as bronze spear heads The Mycenaean bronze spears would have been used for hunting boars as well as in warfare. The Mycenaeans were a Bronze Age Culture found primarily in mainland Greece in city states such as Thebes, Mycenae and Tiryns. The Mycenaean civilisation spanned the period from approximately 1750 to 1050 BC and ended abruptly during the collapse of Bronze Age culture in the eastern Mediterranean, to be followed by the so-called Greek Dark Ages.
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Location: Napflion Archaeological Museum. Greece
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