Re: The complexities of Bastarnia i

From: george knysh
Message: 67574
Date: 2011-05-19



> As for the Atmoni and Sidones of ca. 80 BCE, we have to decide (a)
> whether they were the Poeneshti-Lukashovka groups or (b) the
> Zarubinian groups or (c) some or all of either. And take our cues
> from additional indicators, as I have done.*****

Didn't you say there were three archaeological groups? So...

Torsten
****GK: There were three archaeological groups in the Zarubinian culture, and after 50 BCE a fourth one began to be constituted (about which more anon). I did not say very much about Poeneshti-Lukashovka except that only one such group remained after 50 BCE (in Bukovyna/Galicia). Before 50 BCE there were  about four smaller P/L groups in Moldavia. I don't think Strabo spoke of the Late P/L group  in B/G because he would have mentioned the fact that in his time there were Getae between the Peucini and the Atmones(?)/Sidones. So his account is prior to Burebista.****