Iron age was 1200 - 550 BC, Ötzi lived ~3200 BC, which actually puts him in the chalcolithic/copper age (he even had a copper axe) or maybe early bronze age. So we were both wrong!
Most of the Roman history that’s talked about here wasn’t part of the iron age, either (depending on who you ask)! Antiquity is its own period, and its historic (people were writing historic accounts, inscriptions etc.) in contrast to the prehistoric (in most parts of Europe, though not the Near East) iron age.
were pants even invented at that time? i thought they were relatively recent, like 1500 or so.
Isn’t the joke that the Germans used them and the Romans didn’t like the idea (of neither Germans or doing anything that they did)?
were germans even invented at that time?
Germans =/= Germanic tribes, but it’s clear from the context.
ah germanic humor
There are only 4 humors and “germanic” isn’t one of them. I could offer you some phlegm?
You’re talking a lot of smack for someone who’s in miasma range
But the ever-germane smack only allemannic engineering can offer
Celts and Germanic peoples wore clothing that were recognizably trousers (and not leggings).
Trousers saw a revival in Western fashion in the early modern period, but had ‘existed’ since long before.
oh interesting
yes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ötzi#Clothes_and_shoes
leggings in that context aren’t pants, they’re basically loose legs that you tie to your belt.
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Iron age was 1200 - 550 BC, Ötzi lived ~3200 BC, which actually puts him in the chalcolithic/copper age (he even had a copper axe) or maybe early bronze age. So we were both wrong!
Sorry I missed that it’d moved from Rome lol
Most of the Roman history that’s talked about here wasn’t part of the iron age, either (depending on who you ask)! Antiquity is its own period, and its historic (people were writing historic accounts, inscriptions etc.) in contrast to the prehistoric (in most parts of Europe, though not the Near East) iron age.
yeah, calling rome “iron age” is kinda like calling us “industrial era”