Re: Romanized Bastarnians

From: Torsten
Message: 68343
Date: 2012-01-02

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> *****GK: If the Atmones and Sidoni fled in 88 BCE then how does one explain the fact that there is no archaeological evidence of any major departure from ANY "Bastarnian" area at thst time? I think you'll have to go to war no only with all archaeologists but with practically all historians and textologists. ******

Archaeological evidence shows presence, not departures. The army of archaeologists and historians and 'textologists' would have to show presence of the Atmoni and Sidoni and the absence of the Rachny and Pochep post-Zarubintsy groups
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rome_and_the_Barbarians_in_Eastern_and_Central_Europe_around_100_AD_by_Shchukin.png
for the period 88 BCE - ca. 70 CE.

How was this Zarubintsy 'crisis' in 40 - 70 CE fixed temporally?


Torsten