01-26-2009, 08:51 PM
What version of acrobat reader have you got? I have tried to open that article before with the same result.
Yes I have read that article in e-keltoi. It mentions bell beaker culture and urnfield culture, but not a word regarding halstatt or la tene, except a grave find of 42 la tene swords. I'm left wondering whether la tene culture actually penetrated into the iberian peninsula or whether swords like these are imports.
Arrrgh, why can't we all just write in one language
mrgreen:
If you can open that gladius article, would you mind sending it to me? :oops:
I do not know whether steel production was actually a bullet proof process around 200bc, I have heard that the quality of the steel was very dependent on the iron ore and that only a few mines could produce the ore quality needed for good steel. It seems to me that the ore accessible to the celtiberians might have been of that quality. But other mines would have been accessible, steel from the noricum mines for example. So romans should have met celts wielding excellent steel swords previous to the second punic war, no?
Cheers,
Jesper
Yes I have read that article in e-keltoi. It mentions bell beaker culture and urnfield culture, but not a word regarding halstatt or la tene, except a grave find of 42 la tene swords. I'm left wondering whether la tene culture actually penetrated into the iberian peninsula or whether swords like these are imports.
Arrrgh, why can't we all just write in one language
mrgreen: If you can open that gladius article, would you mind sending it to me? :oops:
I do not know whether steel production was actually a bullet proof process around 200bc, I have heard that the quality of the steel was very dependent on the iron ore and that only a few mines could produce the ore quality needed for good steel. It seems to me that the ore accessible to the celtiberians might have been of that quality. But other mines would have been accessible, steel from the noricum mines for example. So romans should have met celts wielding excellent steel swords previous to the second punic war, no?
Cheers,
Jesper
Cheers,
Jesper
Jesper
