05-10-2013, 08:26 PM
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. :-)
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. :-)
Alan J. Campbell
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb