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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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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago
[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago
[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What do you hunt with a sword?

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Typically used to finish off dangerous game like boars after they've been wounded.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

More sporting, less humane for the beast. Unless the boars had spears and armour too. Please tell me they did.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

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)