Re: The spread of Germanic

From: Torsten
Message: 65683
Date: 2010-01-18

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:
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> --- On Sun, 1/17/10, Torsten <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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> > Here's the deal: there wasn't any 'local aristocracy' in
> > Przeworsk to influence.
> >
> > GK: There are top dogs in the simplest villages. There are
> > leaders in the most primitive warbands.
>
> How come they left no specific trace then?
>
> ****GK: How do we know they didn't? Perhaps our interpretation of
> old gravesites is prejudiced.

George, you are amazing.

> Henryk Lowmianski once argued (in his work on Polish origins) that
> in some ancient cultures (where the aristocracy had not yet become
> gradated) the very fact of being buried constituted proof of
> "distinguished status" (with richness of inventory a rather late
> development), whereas the hoi polloi didn't rate that and their
> remains were diposed of in other ways...

Vultures? Ragout?

> Perhaps we should think about this.*****

Erh, OK.



Torsten