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Sarmatian/Persian soft kit 1 -100 AD?
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Quote:I agree with you on the groundwork part, but the La Tène C and D swords are of a rather different type, more like the longswords used on the steppes. This is also the period of Sarmatian expansion towards the west and Celtic expansion towards the east.
It would help to know where the longer C and D phase swords were developed. I'd be inclined agree with you if they appeared in areas close to the Sarmatian frontier. However, I still don't see them as so different from earlier La Tene styles that they can't plausibly have also developed independent of outside influence.


Quote:By the way, which Thin Lizzy song is that?
"Fighting My Way Back," Fighting (1975 (Sorry about the ad clip, but it's the best upload I could find.)


Quote:Perhaps the only common root is something anciently Indo-European. So, in that sense these seemingly unrelated advancements did stem from a common "ancestor"-- a bronze dagger, perhaps not even arsenical bronze, and perhaps still buried in the "homeland."

And Andronovo-Sintashta would be the "abuttment in space and time" you mentioned. :-)
Well, certainly Celtic and Iranic cultures both owe very much to the proto-Indo-Europeans... I don't know how long ago the languages are believed to have diverged but it's also plausible that they could have traded aspects of material culture for long after that. However, from what I've seen, the Andronovo-Sintashta edged weapons were merely daggers or large knives -- far from the long swords of the Iron Age.
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Sarmatian/Persian soft kit 0 -100 AD? - by Alanus - 02-19-2013, 02:01 AM
Sarmatian/Persian soft kit 0 -100 AD? - by Alanus - 02-20-2013, 12:07 AM
Sarmatian/Persian soft kit 1 -100 AD? - by Alanus - 02-20-2013, 12:56 AM
Sarmatian/Persian soft kit 1 -100 AD? - by Alanus - 03-01-2013, 01:42 AM
Sarmatian/Persian soft kit 1 -100 AD? - by Alanus - 03-03-2013, 02:19 AM
Sarmatian/Persian soft kit 1 -100 AD? - by Alanus - 03-03-2013, 09:40 PM
Sarmatian/Persian soft kit 1 -100 AD? - by Alanus - 03-25-2013, 05:33 PM
Sarmatian/Persian soft kit 1 -100 AD? - by Alanus - 04-02-2013, 09:13 PM
Sarmatian/Persian soft kit 1 -100 AD? - by eduard - 04-12-2013, 04:58 PM
Sarmatian/Persian soft kit 1 -100 AD? - by eduard - 04-12-2013, 06:56 PM
Sarmatian/Persian soft kit 1 -100 AD? - by Nadeem - 04-12-2013, 09:09 PM
Sarmatian/Persian soft kit 1 -100 AD? - by eduard - 04-12-2013, 11:37 PM
Sarmatian/Persian soft kit 1 -100 AD? - by Nadeem - 04-15-2013, 11:04 PM
Sarmatian/Persian soft kit 1 -100 AD? - by eduard - 05-08-2013, 11:28 AM
Sarmatian/Persian soft kit 1 -100 AD? - by Alanus - 05-08-2013, 11:02 PM
Sarmatian/Persian soft kit 1 -100 AD? - by eduard - 05-09-2013, 01:01 AM
Sarmatian/Persian soft kit 1 -100 AD? - by eduard - 05-10-2013, 05:51 PM
Sarmatian/Persian soft kit 1 -100 AD? - by Alanus - 05-10-2013, 08:05 PM
Sarmatian/Persian soft kit 1 -100 AD? - by Alanus - 05-10-2013, 08:14 PM
Sarmatian/Persian soft kit 1 -100 AD? - by Alanus - 05-10-2013, 08:26 PM
Sarmatian/Persian soft kit 1 -100 AD? - by Dan D'Silva - 05-11-2013, 12:24 AM
Sarmatian/Persian soft kit 1 -100 AD? - by Alanus - 05-18-2013, 05:58 AM
Sarmatian/Persian soft kit 1 -100 AD? - by Alanus - 05-21-2013, 08:57 AM
Sarmatian/Persian soft kit 1 -100 AD? - by Alanus - 05-31-2013, 04:10 AM

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