Re: Not "catching the wind " , or, what ARE we discussing?

From: tgpedersen
Message: 56580
Date: 2008-04-03

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:
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> --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh
> > <gknysh@> wrote:
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> > > --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@> wrote:
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> > > > The solution that satifies all these demands is that the
> > > > Chatti were NWBlock-speaking NWBlock people driven out during
> > > > Elbe Germanic expansion into their old areas.
> > > >
> > > > Torsten
> > >
> > > GK: That would be OK with me, except for one
> > > additional point: that these displaced NWB-ers had
> > > also adopted the "Elb-Germanic" archaeological
> > > culture, as did whatever remnants of the old
> > > populations they found in Hesse. Or did I
> > > misunderstand Hachmann as to this?
> > > >
> >
> > I'm not sure I understand you. The Chatti were archaeologically
> > something separate, right? Where did they adopt the Elbe-Germanic
> > traits, on the Rhine?
> >
> > Torsten
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> ****GK: I thought that one of the citations you
> translated from Hachmann made the point that as of 1
> CE--> the Elbe-Germanic archaeological culture had
> become completely dominant between Rhine and Elbe,
> replacing whatever was there previously: late
> LaTene,"north of the Lippe" cultures, and intrusive
> Przeworsk.****

Wouldn't such an intrusion be a very good reason for the Chatti to
leave for Kassel and environs?


Torsten