Re: Cimmerians

--- In cybalist@..., george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

>
> --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> > --- In cybalist@..., george knysh <gknysh@...>
> > wrote:
> > >
> the
> > > "Tauri" (no relation to the Taurisci),
> >(TORSTEN) Why not? The times match (almost); Tauri
> disappear
> > 200 BCE, Taurisci appear 250-225 BCE. See the
> > ethnohistory
> > link I sent to Alex.
>
> *****GK: There is nothing Celtic about the Tauri of
> the Crimea. The Taurisci enter history as a Celtic
> tribal unit of the La Tene culture. Vague sound
> similarities (Tauri/ Taurisci;
> Cymru/Cimbri/Cimmerians; Getae/Goths; Scythians/Scots;
> Romans/Roma etc. etc.) are not a hopeful method for
> the reconstruction of historical events in the absence
> of additional textual , archaeological, ethnographic,
> linguistic etc. corroborations.*******
>
>

This link

http://www.rastko.org.yu/arheologija/ajovanovic-nekropole.html

might interest you, especcially w.r.t. grave forms. Although he
doesn't supply it as a scenario, I think his data are not
incompatible with a mass immigration from the Pontic region in the
first century BCE.

Torsten