05-10-2013, 04:14 AM
I'd agree about the trousers. I don't know enough about most of the other things to comment, but I think one would have to do a lot of groundwork to make such an assertion. The long swords seem to me to be parallel developments -- that the La Tene sword derived from the proto-anthropomorphic Hallstatt dagger, which in turn is descended from the Urnfield sword, while the Steppe longsword I think descends over several phases from the Classical akinakes. One would have to show abutment in space and time to say that either line of descent influenced the other.
Dan D'Silva
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Far beyond the rising sun
I ride the winds of fate
Prepared to go where my heart belongs,
Back to the past again.
-- Gamma Ray
Well, I'm tough, rough, ready and I'm able
To pick myself up from under this table...
-- Thin Lizzy
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