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Historical Artifacts
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Just a community for everyone to share artifacts, reconstructions, or replicas for the historically-inclined to admire!
Generally, an artifact should be 100+ years old, but this is a flexible requirement if you find something rare and suitably linked to an era of history, not a strict rule. Anything over 100 is fair game regardless of rarity.
Generally speaking, ruins should go to !historyruins@lemmy.world
Illustrations of the past should go to !historyillustrations@lemmy.world
Photos of the past should go to !HistoryPorn@lemmy.world
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Just tusks and thick skin, I'm afraid!
I think part of it was a reluctance to waste ammunition - you can make a boar into a veritable pincushion before it actually dies, and gunpowder is a bit pricey to be repeatedly plinking a boar at near-point-blank range. Better to give it a good stab through the throat or heart and be done with it (probably, I don't actually know a lot about these hunting tools other than their broad usage case)