Re: [tied] Re: The "Lesser Goths" of Jordanes

From: george knysh
Message: 13100
Date: 2002-04-08

--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> > I would like to see a "factual disproof" in the
> Popper sense, eg.
> > archaeologically. If I should fail to provide a
> not improbable
> > interpretation of Jordanes' account, that is in
> agreement with the
> > archaeological evidence, as in our previous
> discussion on "*Odin*
> on
> > Fyn",
> then I'll agree the that simplest, ie most literal,
> reading (of
> Jerome and Jordanes) falls.
>
> >
> > Torsten

****GK: Well that's pretty simple too. There is not a
whit of archaeological evidence indicating movement
from the South Baltic (or Scandinavian) areas into
Ukraine during the period 1500-1300 BC which would
confirm the Jordanes version. The dominant East
Tshynetsk c. of northern Ukraine is autochtonous, its
southern neighbour, the Komarov c. has components
which came in from the south not the north or
northwest. The Zrubna c. of the steppes and east of
the Dnipro is firmly tied to areas further east, and
eventually develops into the culture of Scythia. The
only archaeological evidence in line with the Jordanes
account is Wielbark moving southeastward from the
later 1rst c. AD.******
>


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