From: tgpedersen
Message: 64333
Date: 2009-07-05
>Erh, OK.
>
>
> --- On Fri, 7/3/09, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
> GK: While interesting for
>
> > Germanic archaeology, I don't notice a single comment by any of
> > these competent scholars which would indicate grave inventories
> > involving any kind of "eastern objects" brought in by inmigrants.
>
> Scholar, not scholars. Boosen.
>
> ****GK: He cites others.****
>I haven't seen any. Do you feel up to the task of discussing the provenance of those particular grave goods which should or shouldn't be there?
>
> So that whatever changes are noted in the Oder/Warthe and other
> regions in the 1rst c. BCE are changes due to internal dynamics
> (and afterwards with interaction with the Romans), not to cultural
> or other influxes from the east.
>
> The interesting part is that the provenance of these new elements
> are not discussed at all.
>
> ****GK: Well you picked the source. Find a better one. Surely there
> are archaeological publications which comment on the identity and
> provenance of these inventories at least broadly "local" vs.
> "imports". The ball's in your court here.*****