The inhabitants of Crete were only partially peace-loving. Sports competitions were valued and men like to show their muscular, well-trained bodies on Minoan works of art, fight with animals or enemies. Long, narrow swords that could be fatally stabbed served as weapons. Anyone who was a warrior would kill a boar and cut its large tusks into slices, which he then sewed onto his leather cap. The more boar tooth disks you accumulated, the more you could show - until such a boar tooth helmet was ready, you had to have done well and happily 70 adult male wild boars, which was not child's play! In addition to lion hunting (and back then there were still lions in Greece!), Boar hunting was considered particularly dangerous. People hurled spears and protected themselves with eight-shaped or tower-shaped shields - often covered with cowhide.