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You’re not wrong, but this article is about specifically Japanese swords, and I’ve not heard of them being used as spears in Japanese warfare, as someone else pointed out, this one was possibly left to ward off evil spirits, meaning it was a show piece no matter what, not meant to be wielded

Good steel weapons are not as heavy as you'd think, because you can make a high quality steel fairly thin and strong. Japanese steel was extremely hard and rigid and armor was rare, so it being "brittle" (compared to soft steels) wasn't a problem.

As long as you're not swinging it like a sword a metal rod, or blade, won't feel much heavier than a quality staff or polear..

That being said, making a long ass sword to use as a spear instead of just making a spear would be weird as hell, and I could only see it being done as some dick swinging contest.

The Brits sent him to a concentration camp?

I mean, do we need more proof that the nephilim were real? /s

Surely at the beginning of the Iron Age. Pretty sure the Assyrians were the first empire to “mass” produce iron.

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I really wish this article had more photos.

I absolutely love that the Aztecs were fascinated with Teotihuacan.

Similar claims are made today about the Inca as though they were ancient, when we know there were ancient civilizations along the Peruvian coast thousands of years prior link

Or this 3,000 year old Chinese text talking about old writings “‘What did the ancient classic "Zhou Shu(周書)" mean by the sentence that Zhong and Li caused the heaven and earth to disconnect from each other?’ “. So 3,000 years ago the Chinese were talking about ancient stuff. link

Or people being shitty tourists 2,000 years ago link

I love ancient people, and people don’t change that much.

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Wasn't it discovered that an Egyptian Pharaoh had a dagger gorged from a meteorite? I may be mistaken.

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And especially the Olmec!

The most amazing part to me is the people now that still have nahuatl as their mother tongue

Aztec history is fun to me because it really is so recent but it gets treated like its ancient. It put everything into context when i learned that teotihuacan was already an abandoned mystery (at least to them) by the time the aztecs showed up.

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There's a few answers to this because it can depend on a lot of things.

Basically there's a lot of ways to scan film. Some are very slow, some are very fast. Automated systems can be incredibly expensive. The best dedicated film scanners are no longer made and can be very expensive to obtain and maintain. The dedicated systems with automated scanning can be extremely expensive. Automated mechanisms also specialize on strip film or mounted slides.

Currently made systems mostly rely on camera scanning, which is pretty good these days. There's one that does slide carousels and I think they made a system for strip film. There's also an automated strip film system by Negative Supply.

If you don't have an automated system you have to manually mount each strip of film, scan all 3-5 frames, take it off, put it away, grab another, keep going. Or do that for each individual slide. Flatbed scanners are among the most common ways to scan film (though it's not nearly as good as camera scanning), and you can do a bunch of frames at once. But they're usually very slow and takes a few minutes per slide.

There's just a lot of ways to do it but it almost always involves a lot of manual intervention even with the fastest systems.

Besides the actual scanning you have to deal with the media you're digitizing too. Re-sleeve, remount, and re-sort anything that might be deteriorating and in poor condition. Clean major dust off the frames, decide if something isn't even worth scanning, wear gloves and handle the film carefully so you don't damage it, keep everything in the organization system so it isn't lost, organize it physically and digitally, tag the photos according to date and content (data doesn't exist if it isn't organized and/or searchable), decide how much editing you'll do to each frame, and adapt your procedures because of special circumstances.

You can scan everything and just toss it up there. People do that all the time, but it's still a very physical and manual process. And if you're after quality and organization, it can take even longer.

You get to see so many cool memories from the past vividly restored in very high resolution. Properly exposed, developed, high quality, and safely stored film can deliver some amazing digital results. Far better than a lot of people realize (though film doesn't have infinite bazillion K resolution like some redditors may say haha). It's very rewarding! But it's also very slow and very repetitive.

Bit of a random explanation but hope that makes sense!

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Pre-Hispanic has been a term for a long time, at least since I was in undergrad over 10 years ago. Plus it makes better sense since Columbus never set foot in Mexico. He mapped the coastline of the Gulf and some Central American countries, but his impact and importance in Mexican history pales in proportion to the Spanish. Hence, pre-Hispanic.

Thanks for this great summary, War Hymn. Good to see you.

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Just as an aside to you, I've been pondering an idea for if the Hopewell culture developed bronze metallurgy, which is how I got into this subject. From what I understand, it's a similar issue for them, that they couldn't get the fires hot enough to make a proper bronze cast, despite having copper and tin, so their axes were used more as money than as weapons or tools (though they saw limited use in those roles, it seems).

Thought I'd mention, since you said you found worldbuilding interesting. Thanks again for clearing this up.

Is pre-Hispanic a term now? Replacing pre-columbian?

And people still think Mexico was just Aztecs and Maya. People always forget the Zapotec and Mixtec.

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