Sarmatian origins of the spatha?

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Let us not forget - in the history of origin of long swords in Europe and Western Asia - the Cimmerians who possessed very long bimetal swords with cruciform handle who had come in contact with the Thracian populations of Danube region sometime during the 9th century B.C.E. and who later spread west, all the way to Atlantic, with their swords and horse tack when running away from the early Scythians. Also Kuban culture warriors were using both short and long swords. Nota bene Scythians also had long swords apart from their akinakes 'dager'