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I mean, that's kind of what historians have to do. They have to extrapolate. Any event that happens in the past, you kind of have to. Even in relatively recent
by gotorazor 3y ago
I mean, that's kind of what historians have to do. They have to extrapolate.
Any event that happens in the past, you kind of have to. Even in relatively recent past. But yeah, I had the same question as well.
I am sure, a Roman soldier, in the centuries that the Pilum was in use, must have used one in a thrust and either killed or injured an enemy soldier. But based on the historical evidence he has, the Pilum was intended to be and probably mostly used as a throwing weapon.
That would be like a future historian asking whether WWI soldiers used their single-bolt rifles as clubs rather than as projectile weapons.