Is the Short Sword and Shield Overrated?

[Titvs Statilivs Castvs]

I don't think spears are clumsy at all. They can be very effective.

Like any other weapon, it takes training to know how to use it for attack and defense, but spears are not just dumb weapons that can't do much. Tactics change for all sorts of reasons, and sometimes they may not be so clearly definable thousands of years later.

Spears are superb weapons, that's why most warriors of the time preferred to carry them around and use them in combat rather than ditching them for swords.

No, the reason why most warriors carried them is because it's loads cheaper than a sword. Making a spear point is many times easier and quicker than making a sword. If the spear was a superb weapon, than why did the lower class celtic warriors carry spears, while the nobility used swords?