Mesoamerican scholar and expert on Mayan and Aztecan warfare:
Images of battles between brightly
garbed Aztec soldiers armed with wooden swords edged with razor-sharp
obsidian blades and ornately feathered shields and brightly shining
steel-armored Spaniards with Toledo swords and charging horses are not long in
dominating the popular imagination. (Ross Hassig, Polygamy and the Rise and
Demise of the Aztec Empire [Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press,
2016], 1, emphasis added)
Reformed Baptist with no training in ancient history and anthropology on why the "macana"/"macuahuitl" cannot be a sword:
[it] is a war club with sharp rocks embedded in it! (source; see the review of this article by Matthew P. Roper, Of Cynics and Swords)
