Re: [tied] Peschel

From: george knysh
Message: 21571
Date: 2003-05-06

--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
> <piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
> > The only dramatic thing that I'm aware of
> concerning the Germani of
> the Poznan' area (the province of Wielkopolska) is
> the recently
> renewed interest in the Przeworsk and Wielbark
> cultures, stimulated
> by the discovery of numerous new sites (graves and
> cemetries,
> sanctuaries, settlements, and even a salt-extraction
> plant) found in
> the course of "rescue excavations" along a proposed
> gas pipeline
> since the mid 1990s. Further discoveries can be
> expected if the
> archaeologists don't run out of funding. It seems
> the most important
> event in the political life of the region about the
> beginning of the
> common era was the expansion of the Wielbark culture
> from Pomerania
> into northern Wielkopolska at the expense of the
> local Przeworsk
> culture in the first decades AD. The boundary
> between the two
> cultures was very sharply defined. The Wielbark
> "Goths" withdrew from
> the area about the beginning of the third century.
> >
> > Piotr
> >
>
> Thank you. Are the Przeworsk and Wielbark cultures
> known under any
> other names, Peschel doesn't seem to mention them
> (he wrote in the
> GDR in the 70'es). But I was wondering about the
> first century BCE?
>
> Torsten

******GK: I've got the latest literature on the
Przework culture on the way from Poland, and will see
if there is anything there that might interest you.
Can you read Polish Torsten? If so have a preliminary
look at Sylwester Czopek's article:
http://www.muzeum.przeworsk.pl/kultura%20przeworska.pdf

The P. culture was a polyethnic phenomenon at the
beginning (3rd c. BC-->). The main components were
Celtic, Germanic, and "Old European" (here this just
stands for a major unidentified IE group which
produced the Lusatian and Pomorian cultures prior to
the Celto/Germanic push eastward). From ca the middle
of the 1rst c. AD the P. culture represents primarily
Germanic and "Germanicized" groups esp. Vandals.******
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