@@Gaisowiros sorry I'm very late but I think that gallic shields were like this because of the important place of cavalry in gallic warfare, theses flat shields are more adapted for mounted warfare while the curved one is clearly better on 1v1 infantry close combat. Furthermore the Romans didn't have that great of a cavalry
Awesome, finally a good quality channel dedicated to ancient gauls ! Super travail, c'est une très bonne initiative de présenter, en anglais en plus, un peu sur le format de The Metatron, l'état de nos connaissances sur les gaulois. Courage et continue !
I was always fascinated by the idea of an alternate history where the Gauls manage a sort of "industrialization" and start producing professionally armed units of soldiers to match the Romans. It's a fantasy more or less but it's an interesting thought to let run wild in your head.
Great video! You brought some interesting points. Gauls are normally shown in representations using their long swords to try to hack and slash the romans. I believe this is far from the truth. Caesar for example used words like phalanx to describe the gauls fighting. So what you said, that the main weapon of the gallic common warrior was the spear, makes a lot of sense. Trying to break an enemy formation using long swords would be a very stupid idea. The sword would be more like a backup weapon, very useful for the cavalrymen when they lost their spear. When the romans clashed with a gallic infantry, they would be facing a solid wall of shield and spear. The disadvantages of the gallic infantry would be that the romans would be way better equiped (since most of the noble gauls would be fighting on horseback) and that the roman manipular legion was specially good in breaking infantry formations. The romans didn't fight defensively waiting for the angry barbarian charge as shown in movies or documentaries. The roman infantry most of the times had a very aggressive stance in the battlefield, throwing their pila while charging.
Those are really good points you brought up, I never really thought about how defensive the Gauls must have been if we follow the historical and archaeological clues. Too often is our image tainted by romantic ideas of barbarism!
@@iberius9937 I find it funny how people ignore obvious evidences about that. Like, Caesar literally said that the helvetii formed a phalanx and advanced
@@iberius9937 mostly due to exaggerations that Caesar made to make the Gauls more savage and later historian took this as gospel rather than half true half propaganda
That third helmet with the cheek protection with the 3-disc decoration is Samnite. The style may be based on what the Senones brought into Italy, but the decoration is definitely Italic
I've always read that the Montefortino helmet was both Celtic and Italic ( or perhaps meaning we don't really know where it comes from?). Your point about the decoration being Italic is interesting. Does it come from recent research?
Gaisowiros I just remember it from years ago when I was studying pre-roman italian history. Here's a modern link.www.sanniti.info/smweap03.html The 3 disc motif was quite common. Nice vid though. It's interesting how many similarities there are between italic and gaulish/celtic cultures.
The Roman writer Varro attributes the invention of chain mail to the Celts. The Romans did not use it before encountering the Celts. This is odd, because they would have seen the technology before with the Etruscans (from whom they also stole many things people typically call ‘Roman’ today), but we know it is not the same type. Etruscan Mail segmentation is different from Celtic, and it is the latter sort which the Romans layer adopt. They stole everything from the Celts, in addition to murdering a great number of them and taking as many into slavery.
Not so sure about it being that they "stole" from the Celts so much as that they were of a common ethno-linguistic origin (Italic peoples), considering the whole Italo-Celtic connection. Both essentially Iron Age Indo-European cultures, obviously. Correct me if I am wrong.
Thank you for the video, very interesting.
Thank you so much this means a lot!
I was looking on Metatron's channel for more info about Gauls. I've found the complementary channel. Thank you two.
You should do some videos on the Gauls too Metatron, if you have the time/interest
@@Gaisowiros sorry I'm very late but I think that gallic shields were like this because of the important place of cavalry in gallic warfare, theses flat shields are more adapted for mounted warfare while the curved one is clearly better on 1v1 infantry close combat. Furthermore the Romans didn't have that great of a cavalry
Awesome, finally a good quality channel dedicated to ancient gauls ! Super travail, c'est une très bonne initiative de présenter, en anglais en plus, un peu sur le format de The Metatron, l'état de nos connaissances sur les gaulois.
Courage et continue !
I was always fascinated by the idea of an alternate history where the Gauls manage a sort of "industrialization" and start producing professionally armed units of soldiers to match the Romans. It's a fantasy more or less but it's an interesting thought to let run wild in your head.
Tellement dommage que tu ais arrêter les vidéos :/ Elles sont vraiment super bien réalisé et cool à suivre
Great video! You brought some interesting points. Gauls are normally shown in representations using their long swords to try to hack and slash the romans. I believe this is far from the truth. Caesar for example used words like phalanx to describe the gauls fighting. So what you said, that the main weapon of the gallic common warrior was the spear, makes a lot of sense. Trying to break an enemy formation using long swords would be a very stupid idea. The sword would be more like a backup weapon, very useful for the cavalrymen when they lost their spear. When the romans clashed with a gallic infantry, they would be facing a solid wall of shield and spear. The disadvantages of the gallic infantry would be that the romans would be way better equiped (since most of the noble gauls would be fighting on horseback) and that the roman manipular legion was specially good in breaking infantry formations. The romans didn't fight defensively waiting for the angry barbarian charge as shown in movies or documentaries. The roman infantry most of the times had a very aggressive stance in the battlefield, throwing their pila while charging.
Those are really good points you brought up, I never really thought about how defensive the Gauls must have been if we follow the historical and archaeological clues. Too often is our image tainted by romantic ideas of barbarism!
Interesting! I was not aware that the Gauls would have fought similarly to Greek hoplites rather than as disorganized "Barbarians".
@@iberius9937 I find it funny how people ignore obvious evidences about that. Like, Caesar literally said that the helvetii formed a phalanx and advanced
@@brunomattos1130 So why are Gauls typically depicted as fighting like disorganized savages or something? Where did THAT spring from?
@@iberius9937 mostly due to exaggerations that Caesar made to make the Gauls more savage and later historian took this as gospel rather than half true half propaganda
Great video as usual ! Keep up the good work et merci !
Very informative! Thanks for that.
That third helmet with the cheek protection with the 3-disc decoration is Samnite. The style may be based on what the Senones brought into Italy, but the decoration is definitely Italic
I've always read that the Montefortino helmet was both Celtic and Italic ( or perhaps meaning we don't really know where it comes from?). Your point about the decoration being Italic is interesting. Does it come from recent research?
Gaisowiros I just remember it from years ago when I was studying pre-roman italian history. Here's a modern link.www.sanniti.info/smweap03.html The 3 disc motif was quite common.
Nice vid though. It's interesting how many similarities there are between italic and gaulish/celtic cultures.
The Roman writer Varro attributes the invention of chain mail to the Celts.
The Romans did not use it before encountering the Celts.
This is odd, because they would have seen the technology before with the Etruscans (from whom they also stole many things people typically call ‘Roman’ today), but we know it is not the same type.
Etruscan Mail segmentation is different from Celtic, and it is the latter sort which the Romans layer adopt.
They stole everything from the Celts, in addition to murdering a great number of them and taking as many into slavery.
Not so sure about it being that they "stole" from the Celts so much as that they were of a common ethno-linguistic origin (Italic peoples), considering the whole Italo-Celtic connection. Both essentially Iron Age Indo-European cultures, obviously. Correct me if I am wrong.
@@iberius9937 the two groups had similar origins, but chainmail certainly didn't come from those similar origins.
Good video mate
Great job!
Most likely you shield won’t break. Shield are usually pretty sturdy and unlikely to break