For those of you with an interest in Taiwan Aboriginal stuff

[migueldiaz]

Originally Posted by KuKulzA28

With demanding distant relatives like this...

Well as the saying goes, you can choose your friends but not your relatives

Originally Posted by KuKulzA28

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.

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?