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Sarmatian/Persian soft kit 1 -100 AD?
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Hello, Dan

I agree that, overall, we see a lengthening of swords that is not culturally related, but rather the product of bronze to iron technology, plus being a product of a rise and refinement of cavalry tactics. 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. :-)
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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 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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