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Freddy · 30th December 2006, 08:10 PM

What Vandoo is writing is quite interesting. Some time ago, I had a conversation with a Dutch friend about the influence Southeastasian statues had on statues from East-Africa. He sees similarities in, for example, the position of the shoulders and arms.

Also, in his book - 'The Sickle Weapons - Part III' - the author Jan Elsen states that when he was doing research concerning these weapons, he found out that some of the Eastafrican tools/weapons (sickle knives) had a resemblance with weapons from Southeast-Asia (Borneo, Sumatra, Timor and even Vietnam).
Through trade between East-Africa and Asia, it's well possible that all kinds of influences entered Africa.

So it could well be that a particular shape of some type of knife followed the same 'route'.

30th December 2006, 08:10 PM	#4
Freddy Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Sint-Amandsberg (near Ghent, Belgium) Posts: 830	What Vandoo is writing is quite interesting. Some time ago, I had a conversation with a Dutch friend about the influence Southeastasian statues had on statues from East-Africa. He sees similarities in, for example, the position of the shoulders and arms. Also, in his book - 'The Sickle Weapons - Part III' - the author Jan Elsen states that when he was doing research concerning these weapons, he found out that some of the Eastafrican tools/weapons (sickle knives) had a resemblance with weapons from Southeast-Asia (Borneo, Sumatra, Timor and even Vietnam). Through trade between East-Africa and Asia, it's well possible that all kinds of influences entered Africa. So it could well be that a particular shape of some type of knife followed the same 'route'.