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Archaeology or archeology[a] is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes.

Archaeology has various goals, which range from understanding culture history to reconstructing past lifeways to documenting and explaining changes in human societies through time.

The discipline involves surveying, excavation, and eventually analysis of data collected, to learn more about the past. In broad scope, archaeology relies on cross-disciplinary research. Read more...

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Copper Age necropolis unearthed in Italy contains skeletal remains and still-sharp weapons, maybe from ancient warriors (www.livescience.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Archaeologists in Italy have unearthed a Copper Age necropolis that contains nearly two dozen tombs and a collection of weapons.

The discovery was made in November at San Giorgio Bigarello, a municipality in northern Italy, during the construction of a community garden. However, researchers had no idea how extensive the 5,000-year-old burial site was until excavations earlier this year revealed 22 tombs containing human remains. Many of the burials included flint weapons, including daggers, "perfect arrowheads" and blades, according to a translated article in ArchaeoReporter, an archaeology-focused newspaper based in Italy.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"maybe from ancient warriors." Who else would they be from? Some kid who was really into Naruto and went shopping at the bootleg sword store in the ancient necropolis mall?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

People used to own very few items, and it was common for them to have multiple functions. Knives were both a weapon and a utensil all the way into the middle ages. Axes were used to fell trees, build items, and wage war. So yes, a lot of people carried weapons.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

I think we would define them as "tools" then, and not weapons. Anything can be a weapon if you use it like one. Calling them "weapons" tells me that these are designed to be used as such.