Re: [tied] Re: First iron swords on mass scale

John Croft wrote:

> The Dorian movements are commonly believed to have occurred in two
> waves. The first from Thesally to Epirus (around Dodona). A second
> from Dodona to the Pelopponnese. The first may have been prompted by
> raids (Thracians) south from Thrace. The second by the Illyrian
> expansion (The Illyrian Dardana seem to have given their name to
> Dodona - a temple of Zeus venerated in Greece just behind that of
> Olympus). There was thus no contact between Hittites and Dorians at
> all. I would suspect that the Dorians got their knowledge of iron
> from the Illyrians. Whether there is a word for iron in Illyrian
> that has survived, I don't know.

This again is an interesting view. What do you know about the relationship
between the Illyrians and the Urn Field Culture? How did the early Illyrian
graves look like?

Michal