How effective were these things?
like an axe but more durable
>>64705151Not sure whether it's more durable than a similar regular-built war hatchet, but it's simpler to make (durable wooden hafts would have been at a premium, whereas khopesh were cast en masse).
>>64705169>bronze>easier to make than wooden shafts/k/ always delivers the dumbest takes.
>>64705176Anon, it's *Egypt*. They don't have a fuckload of forests to just get nice strong wood from whenever they feel like.
>>64705182even on the fucking moon bronze castings are orders of magnitude more expensive than wood, idiot.
>>64705144https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zywq-Gysw8Ehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8svNN8saeU
>>64705200That line of reasoning is obviously incorrect, given that we have proof of exactly that, namely a skeletonized all-metal war hatchet, rather than a hafted one (which would theoretically use less metal).
>>64705208we have both, since one evolved from the other and subsequently fell into obscurity again. as to why it appeared it could be many things from durability to a status symbol to whatever else but it's utterly retarded to assume it's because casting the thing out of bronze was easier than to find a wooden shaft.
