Re: [tied] Peschel

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

>
>
> ******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?

I don't know; haven't tried ;-) I took a one year course of Russian
30 years ago, I'll see what I can do with my Langenscheidt Danish-
Polish. Thanks for the reference!

>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.******
> >

Any relation of the Jastorf culture? Peschel insists that perished in
the expansion of the Hermunduri in a few decades in last half of the
first century BCE, at a time when the Romans were inactive, thus not
a military reaction and reorganisation.

Torsten