Re: [tied] Re: some terms for George

--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> Terminology
> A Pre-Roman (Celtic) Iron Age
> B1 (approx) until 75 CE
> B2 (approx) 75 CE until 160 CE
>
> The map PK provides does not give periods for the
> finds of
> Ringknaufschwerter. However he thinks they belong
> with the finds of
> chain mail, of which the finds are: 2 B1 in
> Slovakia, 4 B2 on the
> right bank of the Elbe, 1 B2 in Schleswig, 1 B2 in
> Scania, 2 B2/C1 in
> Poland and several later in Jutland and Fyn. The
> geographical
> distribution of the swords is similar (thus out of
> the range of the
> Romans!) I was wondering why the Germani didn't
> cross the Elbe after
> Varrus' defeat, perhaps the dating of the periods
> needs revision?
>
> The weapons arrived relatively late (or perhaps were
> given as
> gravegoods late?) PK point to spheroid chapes
> (Kugelortb�nder)
> arriving earlier; again the same pattern: early wide
> distribution
> from upper Elbe to Holstein and Jutland, later
> concentrated in
> Holstein and Jutland (except these are represented
> on �land and
> Gotland too).
>
> from
> Piotr Kaczanowski
> Aus den Forschungen an der territrorialen
> Differenzierung des
> Zustr�ms r�mischer Waffenimporte im Barbaricum
> in
> Beitr�ge zu r�mischer und barbarischer Bewaffnung in
> den ersten vier
> nachchristlichen Jahrhunderten
>
> I won't recomend that you read it since the last
> time I did that you
> asked Piotr to shut me up.

******GK: He told you to shut up concerning your
increasingly boring and annoying Odin fantasies unless
you had some credible new evidence to back them up (in
which case they would no longer be fantasies but
scientific hypotheses). If Kaczanowski provided such
evidence you were perfectly free (and still are) to
present it in argument.*****

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