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I think that armour is one of the hallmarks of civilisation. I speak here of civilisation in the classic sense: agrarian, stratified, complex societies in which a calorific surplus supports classes of specialists. Armour was an effective means of gaining military advantage for most of human history. Every tribe had access to weapons, every tribe had its fair share of violent men, but there are things about armour that require a level of organisation and wealth unavailable to nomadic peoples…

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