The inhabitants of Crete were only partially peaceful. Minoan works of art show sports competitions were valued and men with muscular, well-trained bodies fought with animals or enemies. Long, narrow swords built for stabbing were the preferred weapons. Warriors would hunt boars and sew pieces of the tusks into their caps of trophies. The more boar tooth discs you collected, the more you showed your skills. Covering a cap with boar teeth meant a warrior had taken the lives of 70 wild boars! In addition to lion hunting (and back then there were still lions in Greece!), boar hunting was considered particularly dangerous. People threw spears and protected themselves with eight-shaped or tower-shaped shields - often covered with cowhide.