Re: Celtic inhumations in the first c. BCE

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, gknysh@... wrote:

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> --- On Fri, 7/24/09, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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> > But as to inhumation practicing Celts involved with the Przeworsk culture and with Ariovistus' campaign see:
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> > http://www.iaepan.edu.pl/archaeologia-polona/article/162
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> > esp. section X at p. 146 and the notes.
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> Quote from there (p. 30):
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> 'Il semble que ce territoire fut peuplé, dans la seconde moitié du IIe siècle, par une nouvelle population. Mais probablement une partie des Celtes locaux y resta, ce que suggère le fait qu'au Ier avant n.è., et aussi plus tard, apparaissent des tombes à squelette qui indiquent une trace de la tradition religieuse celtique et qui, peut-être, contiennent les depouilles mortelles des descendants des Celtes.'
> (TP)It sembles and suggères and appears probablement. Obviously pure guesswork.
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> ****GK: The expression "le fait qu'au Ier avant n.è., et aussi plus tard, apparaissent des tombes à squelette qui indiquent une trace de la tradition religieuse celtique" hardly indicates pure guesswork. "Appears" and "probably" is also considerably stronger than "pure guesswork". Even the "peut etre" is in the milder "guesswork" category, hardly "pure" since it relates to firmer evidence.

Call it guesswork then. Obviously Wozniak draws his conclusion of Celticity faute de mieux, since he lists no particular reason for it.

> Wozniak is reporting the main conclusions of Kostrzewski's
> "Skellettgraeber" article (note 37).

He is?

> Perhaps you should read it...****

You would like me to read this article on Skelettgräber for you?
I'll see what I can do.

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> Another quote:
> 'On peut donc présumer que c'est ici justement que la population de
> la civilization de Przeworsk adopta du substratum celtique son nom
> probablement celtique (Lugii).'
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> ****GK: The archaeological evidence is solid enough.

The evidence is tangible. The interpretation of it is not, as Wozniak indicates.

> But this linguistic/historical notion comes closer to being a
> guess, as is what follows below.

Erh, notion? Would you mind being more precise when you proclaim one of your final conclusions? What exactly are you saying, apart from that you don't like the conclusions I draw?

> One can take it or leave it. It doesn't affect the main
> conclusion.*****

If you leave it it doesn't. If you take it it does. Of course if you leave it you'd have to come up with some other etymology for the name. One thing is certain that it's not particularly Celtic.

> You probably saw what I think of the provenance of that name.
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/64400
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/64401
> /etc./

Torsten