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A bronze dagger from Lorestan, Iran, 2600–2350 BCE A Neolithic dagger from the Muséum de Toulouse Pre-Roman Iberian iron dagger forged between the middle of the 5th and the 3rd century BC Bronze Age swords, Iranian Kurdistan, Museum of Sanandaj Iberian triangular iron dagger, c. 399–200 BC
The falcata has a single-edged blade that pitches forward towards the point, the edge being concave near the hilt, but convex near the point. This shape distributes the weight in such a way that the falcata is capable of delivering a blow with the momentum of an axe, while maintaining the longer cutting edge of a sword, as well as the facility to thrust.
The dagger was a common weapon of assassination and suicide; for example, the conspirators who stabbed Julius Caesar used pugiones. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The pugio developed from the daggers used by the Cantabrians of the Iberian peninsula.
Bollock dagger, rondel dagger, ear dagger (thrust oriented, by hilt shape) Poignard; Renaissance. Cinquedea (broad short sword) Misericorde (weapon) Stiletto (16th century but could be around the 14th) Modern. Bebut (Caucasus and Russia) Dirk (Scotland) Hunting dagger (18th-century Germany) Parrying dagger (17th- to 18th-century rapier fencing)
Although fencers from the Iberian Peninsula developed a reputation for using very long weapons, the weapons used in destreza were generally shorter than the rapiers used elsewhere. Gradually, bladework in Europe was influenced by the works of Camillo Agrippa and successors, focusing on the use of four primary hand and blade positions ( prima ...
The Iberian warriors, besides being superior in numbers, [62] also had effective weapons, such as the gladius, falcata, the soliferrum or the pugio, a dagger later adopted by Rome for its army. Several historians have praised the quality of Iberian weapons, such as swords.
The Falarica was a heavy javelin with a long, thin iron head of about 900 mm (35 in) in length attached to a wooden shaft of about equal length. The iron head had a narrow sharp tip, which made the falarica an excellent armour-piercing weapon.
Tholos de Montelirio is an archaeological site in Seville Province, Spain, at Valencina de la Concepción.It is a megalithic construction dated to 3,000–2,800 BC. The site was discovered in 1868, but has been abandoned for decades. [1]