Piotr wrote
> I'd like to report the recent publication of an excellent and
beautifully illustrated synthesis of the earliest history of the
Goths
(1st-4th c.), based on up-to-date archaeological research and written
by an archaeologist specialising in Gothic culture and migrations.
The
only drawback of the book is that it's written in Polish, but a
German
version was published simultaneously:
>
> Andrzej Kokowski. 1999. Archeologia Gotów: Goci w Kotlinie
Hrubieszowskiej [German version: Archäologie der Goten: Goten im
Hrubieszów-Becken]. Lublin: ideaMEDIA.
Another excellent publication is Peter Heather's 1996 work "The
Goths", an excellent synthesis of historical and archaeological
information from their reputed origins in Scandinavia, until the
extinction of the Visigothic Kingdom of Spain under the Berber-Arab
invasions. It is another in the "Peoples of Europe" Series of
Blackwell - good scholarly works all - already published works
include
the Picts, the Basques, the Illyrians, the Etruscans, the Huns, the
Mongols, and the Armenians.
Regards
John