Re: Bulgarica

--- Vassil Karloukovski <v.karloukovski@...>
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh
> <gknysh@...> wrote:
>
> > on the basis of the archaeological continuity with
> the
> > older Sarmatian cultures of the Pontic region, the
>
> > Bulgars have been regarded outright as Sarmatians
> by
> > a number of archaeologists and historians (A.
> Smirnov,
> > V. Sirotenko) since the 40's-50's of the 20-th c.
>
> > GK: The difference between the Alanic and
> Bulgar
> > sites of the Saltov-Mayaky culture (7th-10th cs.)
> is
> > nevertheless very clear. There is mutual influence
> of
> > course, but hardly identity.
>
>
> the observed continuity is with Sarmatian
> pit-burials, and not with
> the Alan catacombs. The origin of the latter I
> understand is not so
> clear as they appear nearly simultaneously not only
> amongst the
> Alans, but also in Crimea (Taurica?) and elsewhere.

*****GK: I don't find this "observed continuity" very
convincing. Steppe populations of various languages
and ethnicities tended to borrow cultural traits from
each other rather easily. For a good example of this
cf. the following website:
http://www.silk-road.com/artl/minyaev1.shtml The
ancestors of the Turkic Huns were influenced by the
Scythian pit-burials.******


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