Forum: European Armoury
7th August 2017, 11:09 PM
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You don't seem to be aware that the Iberian and...
You don't seem to be aware that the Iberian and the Celts were a different peoples. The Celts carried their weapons, Hallstatt and La Tene weapons, which were diffused all over the Peninsula in due...
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Forum: European Armoury
7th August 2017, 10:03 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 15,383
Yes, Peter Connolly in Greece and Rome at War,...
Yes, Peter Connolly in Greece and Rome at War, MacDonald Phoebus, 1981, London, pp. 63-99, mention that this weapon probably originated in Etruria, and was later modified in Spain and Macedon. He...
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Forum: European Armoury
7th August 2017, 12:24 AM
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Replies: 8
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
5th August 2017, 07:08 AM
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Replies: 104
Views: 133,136
It is a pity that the historical evidence does...
It is a pity that the historical evidence does not support this complicated hypothesis (better call it assumption). Swords with cuphilts, laces, circular knuckleguards, protective rings, etc., were...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
5th August 2017, 06:39 AM
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Replies: 96
Views: 89,604
It was hardly an explanation. A hypothesis,...
It was hardly an explanation. A hypothesis, perhaps. And not a good one. Swords suspended by a baldric, with rounded knuckleguards and even with compicated laces and rings or with a wide cup, were...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
5th August 2017, 06:07 AM
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Replies: 96
Views: 89,604
Where? Peru? Chile?
Because America is not the...
Where? Peru? Chile?
Because America is not the United States of America, but a continent with many countries. Despite their name, the US do not agglutinate those countries, neither represent them.
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
4th August 2017, 05:02 AM
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Replies: 96
Views: 89,604
Though it is known today the incredibly far...
Though it is known today the incredibly far reaching connections since prehistoric times the peoples from around the world, except perhaps Australia and America, always had. The influences existed,...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
4th August 2017, 03:05 AM
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Replies: 96
Views: 89,604
I completely agree with this reasoning. This is...
I completely agree with this reasoning. This is why I always quesion in my mind the statements about such and such influences over a specific development and try to search if the features supposedly...
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Forum: European Armoury
3rd August 2017, 02:08 PM
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Replies: 34
Views: 74,794
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Forum: European Armoury
3rd August 2017, 02:08 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 41,265
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Forum: European Armoury
3rd August 2017, 04:02 AM
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Replies: 20
Views: 41,265
I'm not a consoisseur on this kind of weapons,...
I'm not a consoisseur on this kind of weapons, but I will express some ideas, meanwhile others, better informed, gives his or her opinions. The work seems very rough, as if it was made in a colony...
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Forum: European Armoury
3rd August 2017, 04:02 AM
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Replies: 34
Views: 74,794
I'm not a consoisseur on this kind of weapons,...
I'm not a consoisseur on this kind of weapons, but I will express some ideas, meanwhile others, better informed, gives his or her opinions. The work seems very rough, as if it was made in a colony...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
2nd August 2017, 02:12 AM
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Replies: 96
Views: 89,604
Which is?
Now, since I wouldn't like to make...
Which is?
Now, since I wouldn't like to make frivolous divagations (too busy with my readings), I will not insist on this subject and just ask you to compare the swords by Nuno Gonçalves from...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
2nd August 2017, 12:58 AM
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Replies: 96
Views: 89,604
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
2nd August 2017, 12:52 AM
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Replies: 96
Views: 89,604
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
2nd August 2017, 12:47 AM
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Replies: 96
Views: 89,604
Quesada mention another origin, based on a...
Quesada mention another origin, based on a Italian-Mediterranean model, anthough he analyses the Greek hypothesis. Please see Fernando Quesada Sanz, Arma y Símbolo: La Falcata Ibérica, Instituto...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
1st August 2017, 11:03 AM
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Replies: 96
Views: 89,604
I think we are disgressing too much from the...
I think we are disgressing too much from the subject, which is the possible relation among the jineta-nimcha-kattara, which bring us to the evolution of their hilts. The Portuguese and Spanish swords...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
1st August 2017, 07:32 AM
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Replies: 96
Views: 89,604
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
1st August 2017, 06:51 AM
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Replies: 82
Views: 46,417
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
1st August 2017, 06:29 AM
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Replies: 96
Views: 89,604
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
1st August 2017, 06:28 AM
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Replies: 96
Views: 89,604
Details from photos of paintings of Nuno...
Details from photos of paintings of Nuno Gonçalves (court Portuguese painter, 15th Century). The swords seem more akin to the Spanish ones. I wonder if the black sword, more differentiated, was...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
1st August 2017, 05:48 AM
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Replies: 96
Views: 89,604
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
31st July 2017, 02:51 AM
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Replies: 96
Views: 89,604
Ahhhh! The typical colonial discourse…the...
Ahhhh! The typical colonial discourse…the civilizing role of Europe into the rest of the (colonized) world...And today, even the colonial notions about an Indo-Aryan “conquest” are deeply questioned,...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
30th July 2017, 11:58 PM
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Replies: 82
Views: 46,417
Hi Timo,
It seems that I´m wrong. I have...
Hi Timo,
It seems that I´m wrong. I have been checking Tatar sabres with scabbards, and all them seem to be carried edge-down.
I thought the tachi was not used anymore in the 16th Century,...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
30th July 2017, 02:17 PM
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Replies: 82
Views: 46,417
Thank you, Timo.
At what moment and where...
Thank you, Timo.
At what moment and where began those sabers be carried edge-up? In the Golden Horde they were carried edge-up, as I understand. The Russians adopted this sytsem, as also the...
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