Quote Originally Posted by Sarcasm View Post
On Europeans, Portuguese soldiers, at least, were still carrying javelins into their North African fortresses, at the very least up to the 1580's, that I know of. In this particular example, a soldier from Mazagão (modern El Jadida) that was armed with an arquebus, a sword, a dagger, an "adarga" (leather, Moorish-like shield), a spear and 2 javelins - helping him carry all this, a slave or servant. The weapon reappears during the Peninsular war in the hands of militias and guerrillas, along with older equipment, like pikes - some no doubt home-made.

Other people, like Indians and Moroccans and Mauritanians were still using them well into the 1700's.
Sarcasm, you seem to know a lot particularly about the Iberian/Lussotannan bits of EB (IIRC you're one of the faction honchos?). Is there any credible link between the soliferum and the development of the metal hafted pilum? I'm just speculating in a most ignorant and uniformed way but it has caught my imagination.

Is it possible the soliferum bent on impact like a pilum? Were they both usable h-t-h as well as ranged? The Romans often adapted their enemies ideas into their own way of fighting so i wouldn't be surprised at all if there was Iberian inspiration in their pilum.