bronze weapons
Pre-iron age arsenal
Bronze weapons are armaments made from bronze, an alloy of copper and tin that dominated warfare from roughly 3000 BCE until iron became prevalent around 1200 BCE.
Swords, spearheads, daggers, and arrowheads of the Bronze Age were harder and more durable than earlier stone or copper weapons, though softer than later iron and steel.
The museum displayed bronze weapons from ancient Mesopotamia.
- arrowheadPiercing end of projectile
- spear pointSharpened head of throwing weapon
- blade edgeSharpened border of knife
- axeBladed tool for chopping
- daggerShort pointed stabbing blade
copper · tin · sword · alloy · halberd · javelin · Hittites · Ötzi · Mesopotamia · Sumerians · Minoans · hoards · casting · smelting · mold-making · Age · forging · tempering
- bronzespatination, lost wax
- Asian PrehistoryPaleolithic, Chalcolithic, hunter-gatherers, stone tools, pottery shards
- Iron Age EuropeHallstatt culture, Iron Age, Celts, Gauls, druids
- artifactspottery shards, knives, masks, pottery, antiquity
- ancient artifactsjade mask, Viking sword, antiquities, Roman coin, obsidian knife
- antiquitiesancient coins, ancient relics, ancient artifacts, ancient pottery, ancient seals
technological era/material advancement
bronze weaponsiron weapons
Combat tools of metal
stone tools · flint tools · wooden clubs · bone tools · nuclear weapons