first weapon that is handheld be either the rock cain used again, or if you count whatever Abel used to make sacrifice (assumptions are a knife, a stone cutting tool, etc.)

i mean military warfare mass killing type of ways

your not gonna have an army that goes around and bashes ppl with a rock

lol

lmao

swords maybe or is that after spears

they didn't have metalworks since we know Tubal-Cain one of the final generation descendants of Cain learned the artifice of metal, namely brass if i rememebr off top of my head

like i said, i would assume a spear was first

aye

but you dont need metal to make a spear either tho

you can take a stick and grind it on stone to a point

could have been many types of things really

i think soemtiems a sword or blade of some sort

the sword is the material symbol of the tongue

never mind

crap man

lol

just never mind

lol

but i also am a nerd and like my sword lore

there’s stone swords in Minecraft

spears isn't a bad guess though i'd say

because they also could have had stone or wooden spears before metal ones, thus easy to see how they have the concept

Swag

msot all ancient civilizations utilize the spear

the blatt link from zelda lol

though the Greeks popularized it moreso

the sword really is a big one

the bow and arrow also

assumably Nimrod being a mighty hunter before the Lord implies he may have been an archer, which would imply early civilization have archers

indeed his rival Asshur and his civilization depict the chariot and archer frequently

and they are just as old as Nimrod

poor Asshur he always gets forgotten about, but this motehr fucker built Nineveh ffs

I just thought of this, what about traces of Neanderthal dna in us

Nineveh is such a legendary city is so many ancient cultures and it's famous destruction prophesied in the Bible was so in line with the prophecy of it's compelte obliteration that it was thought to be a myth for thousands of years, pretty much the whole pperiod of AD

If we were only humans

until very very recently when we getting access to the area found it and confirmed it and its destruction and found the library of Ashurbanipal

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Why lol

Judaic interpreters as early as Philo and Yochanan ben Zakai (1st century AD) interpreted "a mighty hunter before the Lord" (Heb.: גבר ציד לפני יהוה, ḡibbōr-ṣayiḏ lip̄nê Yahweh, lit. "in the face of Yahweh") as signifying "in opposition to the Lord"; a similar interpretation is found in Pseudo-Philo, as well as later in Symmachus. Some rabbinic commentators have also connected the name Nimrod with a Hebrew word meaning 'rebel'. In Pseudo-Philo (dated c. AD 70), Nimrod is made leader of the Hamites, while Joktan as leader of the Semites, and Fenech as leader of the Japhethites, are also associated with the building of the Tower.[8] Versions of this story are again picked up in later works such as Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius (7th century AD).