From: Mark Odegard
Message: 3080
Date: 2000-08-11
From: Piotr GasiorowskiThe parallel valleys of the Dniester, the Prut and the Siret offer easy routes that lead you straight to the NW coast of the Black Sea, and the LP people discovered them very quickly. But I'd be cautious about this pastoralist apprenticeship in the steppe. From recent publications I get the impression that the history of steppe pastoralism will have to be written again from scratch.PiotrThis is my first acquaintance with the Siret River. All I've found on the web are references to it, but no map clearly locates it. The Bug and Prut I know about, tho' not how easily they allow travel into the Middle Danube region.All these rivers seem to lead north to Bukovina and Transcarpathian Ruthenia (the territories Stalin took from Romania and Slovakia). I gather this is also Vlad Tepes' old stomping ground. What maps I do have show mountains, and I have visions of a very romantic 19th century print showing gorges and waterfalls -- not something you think of as an easy passage into the Middle Danube, but apparently, yes it is.Mark.