08-10-2012, 11:57 AM
Quote: [..] their gist being all steppe tribes, including Massagetae and Alans, spoke Turkic... the real gist being these tribes were Turkic in origin. I called the website guru on that bit of nonsense, but he never replied to me.But of course you know that Sarmatians were in fact Dacians?
I hear that a lot, you know... Quote:The interesting thing about the 7th Cent. BC arrowheads is #10, an armor-piercing bodkin. It shows that effective armor was worn very early on; and like I mentioned on another thread, steppe armor is incredibly old... being perfected in the Bronze Age.That's indeed quite old, but perhaps not that surprising when you have quite developed heavy armoured cavalry during the 4th c. BC or earlier?
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
