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Well as the saying goes, you can choose your friends but not your relatives
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I'm more of a novice at this field of knowledge than many of you but... here goes... xxx
Maybe it is a combination of environment, convergent evolution, and the distribution of ideas... but it seems the biggest of these groups have many things in common underlying their similarities in blade characteristics.
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Thanks for that panoramic sweep of the ethnic weapons of the Austronesian world. It's great and I like it
I agree that we can see both -- there's a common thread, while at the same time we see distinct local traits ... the unity in diversity and diversity in unity stuff.
Of course the Austronesian peoples' culture/s did not develop in a vacuum. There's the two other neighboring civilizations -- the Chinese and the Indians/Hindu. And when the Europeans came later, what we have is a happy mix of just about everything?
