For those who want our own history…
Crossbows (Chinese) and Armour of Iron Mail (Celtic) start circulation around 500 BCE.
Plate armour of the Bronze variety (Dendra Panoply, Mycenaean, Greek) is about a millennium older.
Lamellars (some varieties called “scaled” armour), later metal, but earlier leather or horn have been around about as long as reinforced textile/hardened linen, both of which are basically as old as organized warfare as we understand it.
Before and simultaneously with that, there was always partially cured rhino hide.

Now, fun little fact, “pre-history”, depending upon which scholar you ask, runs right up to the bronze age in about 3300 BCE. We have artifacts from before that, but little in the way of writings and this can lead to wild speculation (and lots of internal wibbles when trying to overturn blatantly fallacious suppositions by decayed aristos in Victorian England who spent more time chasing the dragon in an opium den than they did researching and cataloguing).

For a product to be Conan ™, it cannot be immersive to any of our own historical time periods. At least not fully. It’s a deliberately designed patische of premodernality. That’s before we even touch on the blatantly super natural elements.

As mentioned above, one of the core principles of the Hyborian Age is that it is post plural apocalypses. The civilizations contemporaneous to Conan are successors states built over the ruins of significantly more advanced civilizations. Some of which were directly touched by alien intelligences out of Lovecraftian Mythos. Literally, as the two authors (Howard and Lovecraft) were penpals and collaborators.

There will be many things that seem anachronistic to any of our own historical periods. That’s deliberate.
That is the immersion, because it’s explicitly fictional, as much fantasy as mytho-history.

The core game Plate Armour, Silent Legion, is explicitly regalia of that same group, which was in direct service to the child of one of the Giant Kings (one of those far more advanced vanished cultures). You learn how to make it by magically communing with an ancient lorestones.

That having been said…
This one is very much in support of more savage or ancient armours.
Wolf and Bear pelts, horn lamellars.
The recent Stygian and Turanian offerings have tickled the itch, but there is still plenty of room to grow.
For example, literally any Kushite outfit or armour.

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