2 weapons cataloged
The axe is older than civilization. The hand axe appeared 1.7 million years ago and didn't change for a million years because it didn't need to. When metal came along, the axe gained a hafted head and became the battle axe, the signature weapon of the Viking Age. Cheaper than a sword, easier to make, and just as lethal in trained hands. The battle axe armed the Norse warriors who reshaped the map of Europe, and the huscarls who held the shield wall at Hastings until they couldn't hold it anymore.
The Acheulean hand axe is one of the longest-used tool designs in human history, persisting largely unchanged for over a million years. Teardrop-shaped and bifacially knapped from flint, obsidian, or quartzite, it served as an all-purpose cutting, ch...
The medieval battle axe was the signature weapon of the Viking Age. The iconic bearded axe — with its extended lower blade designed to hook shields and limbs — was both a weapon of war and a tool of daily life. Two-handed Danish axes with broad, cres...
54 Weapons. Five Epochs. One Poster.
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