Actually, the falcata is believed by many to be an evolution of a curved Celtic knife, and the gladius hispaniensis was chiefly an item of the Celtiberian tribes. Either way, neither weapon was by any means Punic; and the Greeks actually adopted the falcata as the macheira or kopis, not the other way around.BTW, those warry Iberian items were mostly innovations by Iberian cultures from the SE coast of Spain, which were by no means Celtic nor pure indigenous ones, but were highly influenced by Greek and Punic colonialism.
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