thanks eftihis! the info and photos are very informative.
here in the philippines, there's a historic place called butuan city where prehispanic filipino sailing boats were found. aside from the boats, many other artifacts were also dug up.
the pic below is from a friend who recently visited butuan city. it shows wooden swords that were part of the archeological find.
i've always thought that these prehispanic wooden swords were used merely for training.
now that you mentioned that in greece some warriors used to be armed with this, i'm thinking now that perhaps in our own ancient past the practice was the same.
and in our case that is very plausible. because iron and steel as raw materials in olden philippines were not that common.
thus in our case, the art of stick fighting (arnis, etc.) became a highly developed martial art.
so thanks again for sharing the pics and info. it's quite interesting definitely
