Re: [tied] Early Roman Iron Age Burials in Denmark II

--- In cybalist@..., "Alexander Stolbov" <astolbov@...> wrote:

> The fact that horse remains were found in Denmark doesn't say

anything

> definite yet. Anyway South Scandinavia has been settled by IE

population and

> horse had to be of a special importance in that society - remember

typical

> IE Bronze Age petroglyphs from this region depicting chariots (BTW

I can not

> explain to myself how chariots with spoked wheels which seem to be

invented

> in steppes near Ural relatively late - about 2000 BC - succeeded to

reach so

> quickly such a distant place as Sweden?

Maybe they had wheels? ;-)

>And what to do with chariots in
> northern forests?)

I just received an e-mail from the museumsdirektoer of Odense Museum,
saying, among other things:
No, no mummification found here, not in this climate.
Horse burials in Denmark:
1 in south Sjaelland 3rd century CE
several on Bornholm 7th-8th century CE
several all over Denmark 9th-10th century CE
always buried with persons. The horse has (whether it's Sleipner
[Odin's steed] or not) played a considerable role in the cult, not
least in Late Roman Iron Age and Viking Age, as is seen from numerous
depictions etc.

So, it doesn't look too bright for Early Roman Iron Age.

>
> Thus we need to find some specific traits which correspond to East

Iranian

> burial ritual if we want to use this as a support for our

hypothetical

> constructions.

OK, let's hear them, I'll search for them.

> "flat-nosed and ugly"
> As far as I remember such a description was applied only to Huns

and never

> to Sarmatians (the latter were typical europeoids - their skulls

prove it,

> only easternmost groups had some mongoloid admixture).

I can give you Deleuran's list of references, but he doesn't say
where this particulat quote comes from.

>
>
> Alexander

Torsten