The "Myth" of the "Dacian Falx" as a super weapon

[Paullus Scipio]

Dear Paul,
in my job, when I want to find an analogy, I look for contemporary artifacts with the one I'm studying and in the same ethnic area.
the Dacian wars were not spontaneous riots for Dacians or Romans to use tools in battle. That hypothesis is highly unlikely.
dolabra is a military tool. it was used in battle in very specific conditions.

Why is it unlikely? The situations are exactly alike....in one, Roman legionaries come up against heavily armoured opponents ( gaulish 'crupellariii gladiators) and resort to an available 'two-handed chopper' - the dolabra/pickaxe ( which incidently was not just a military tool, but a civilian one as well).

In the second instance, Bastarnae tribesmen, when faced with the identical problem ( heavily armoured opponents) very likely came up with exactly the same expedient - to extemporise and use a 'two handed chopper' ( the so-called two-handed 'falx', an agricutural tool/brush-cutter/coppicing tool/hedge trimmer, not a 'modified' or 'adapted' tool, but the exact same one.)
Even Romanian and Bulgarian archaeologists recognise this, by being unable to state whether their finds are tools or weapons.....

BTW, almost the exact same tool is STILL in use in the Danube delta ( part of the Bastarnae homelands at the time) to cut reeds.... D