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The armor has very good coverage (better than modern military armor except bomb suits), but personally I wouldn't call armor "full body" unless it also covers the arms, legs, and at least some of the tops of the feet, plus of course a more complete full head helmet.



What is shown in the photo is probably not the complete armor, because that Wikipedia page also mentions greaves and arm guards.


Leg and foot armor was often times unnecessary in bronze age combat.

Spears are meant to keep the enemy at a distance. Aiming for the foot would require some reaching, putting you in significant danger of counter attack. Armies lined up in row and each man covered the man to his right so reaching in battle would be a risky maneuver.

As for protection against arrows only requires a thin layer of armor to deflect, and that armor is best located above the knee since arrows come from above. Alexander’s phalanx did not utilize foot or leg protection except for the most prestigious officers. Their thin shields were wide enough to cover their body, and it was noted that a phalanx with their spears raised, could scatter a volley of arrows along the spear shafts.

Keep in mind all of this equipment needs to be packed and marched long distances, in the summer heat since armies did not campaign in the winter due to challenges with provisioning a sizable armies in wintertime. The wealthy elite could have baggage trains to carry superfluous equipment, but the bulk of any army marched on their own two legs and carried everything they went to war with on their backs.


There are a lot of assumptions about how this armor was used in this comment.

It's worth mentioning, that the armor was found with an arm guard, greaves, two swords, no spearheads and no shield.

Additionally this is from 1500 BC. If you have a guy in phalanx wearing this in mind, you are probably wrong.


The basic concept of Phalanxes date back to 2500BC at least. Greek hoplites might be more recent, but it’s a surety that the basics were in place long before that.

Full body armour (probably expensive), along with swords suggest that’s this was probably the armour of someone high ranking, rather than a common soldier.


This is the source I'm referencing:

https://acoup.blog/2019/05/03/collections-armor-in-order-par...

He talks about the economics of bronze age warriors, how most soldiers were generally expected to bring their own arms and armor which could be costly, and how soldiers would prioritize armoring their heads and torsos before other body parts.


The article has several images of the armour as tested.


Is there pictures of the foot armor?


Now you're just being an obnoxious pedantic.




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