From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@... com>
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>> To be more precise,
>> I consider The Comb Ceramic Pottery to be Balto-Slavic.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Comb_Ceramic_ Culture
>>
>> Arnaud
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>
> On what grounds?
> Torsten
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This archeological is in the right place at the right time.
(In my own scenario)
Arnaud
****GK: The only "problem" here is that there is no way of deriving either the Baltic or the Slavic archaeological cultures of historical times from Comb-Ceramic, which is probably the reason why Russian, Ukrainian, and other ex-"Soviet area" archaeologists don't. On the other hand, there is a clear link between Comb-Ceramic and many historical Ugro-Finnish cultures. By "historical times" is meant the time frame when documents help to identify contemporary material remains. E.g. linking Sudovians or Prussians to culture A, Merya or Muroma to culture B, Siveriani to culture C etc.. Without such documents you only have the retroactive genetic approach, which, as mentioned, rules out archaeological links between the Balts and Slavs of ca. 1000AD and Comb-Ceramic.****