Hello and welcome to another episode of the ancient warfare podcast. My name is Jasperatis.

I'm the editor of Ancient Warfare Magazine. And with me today is a reduced summer crew because

most people, I guess, are on vacation. We have Murray Dom, the assistant editor and Ark DeSantis.

Today we're going to discuss the latest issue of the magazine,

Issue 103, which is all about the Bronze Age.

We picked kind of a, well, you know, big topic,

probably if chronologically speaking, the biggest, we could have picked

for ancient warfare since we probably won't ever go into the Neolithicum.

But this, you know, depending on which culture you're looking at, we're talking, you know,

roughly 2,000 years of ancient history.

And we were sort of having our pre-discussion for this podcast to decide how we were

going to handle this.

And Murray suggested we could talk about, you know, what do historians talk about?

Continuity and change.

What are the big themes that, you know, what comes up in the Bronze Age and what changes and what seems to, seems to say the same? And one of the things we noticed was a certain continuity in weaponry. Obviously, there's actually, you know, the one that we're going to forget probably is spears

because that's probably the most continuous one of all of ancient history and then medieval

history into the early modern age really just the difference of exactly what kind of pointy bit

you stick on it and how long it is, but otherwise that

stays the same, which perhaps it should be a theme sometime, the spare.

Lots of long-term pictures.

The elasticity of the spare, that it's, you know, we love to talk about a standard length

of spear, but to remember, of course, this is not a, you know, weights and measures is something that comes in, Hamirabi, I think, introduces standardized weights and measures.

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