07-27-2015, 07:16 AM
Alanus,
thanks for synthesis of 1st century Sarmatian sword. I was read Throusdale and Simonenko, but S. Botalov in Gunny i Tiurki giving analogies of two-handed early hunno-sarmatian swords and chinese swords and claiming, that early hunnic swords are of chinese origin. He didn't gave any dating in this comparison. For me, as for you, these swords are pure Sarmatian, for example the Saka owned long swords in VI - V century BC, long before China, as you said.
thanks for synthesis of 1st century Sarmatian sword. I was read Throusdale and Simonenko, but S. Botalov in Gunny i Tiurki giving analogies of two-handed early hunno-sarmatian swords and chinese swords and claiming, that early hunnic swords are of chinese origin. He didn't gave any dating in this comparison. For me, as for you, these swords are pure Sarmatian, for example the Saka owned long swords in VI - V century BC, long before China, as you said.