From: george knysh
Message: 12905
Date: 2002-03-27
> --- In cybalist@..., george knysh <gknysh@...>the
> wrote:
> >
> > --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> > *****GK: Note that there is no "set" orientation
> in
> > the Iranic inhumations from the territory of
> Ukraine,
> > whether Scythian, "Sarmatian", or Alanic (from the
> 7th
> > c. BC through the 4th c. AD). Scythian inhumations
> > "tend" to be west-oriented, but there are also
> many
> > which are north- and some that are south-oriented
> > (including a few southwest- and southeast-). Later
> > Iranic graves "tend" to be north-oriented (esp. in
> the
> > 2nd and 3rd cs.) but some are west- and others
> > south-oriented. Otherwise the inventories are
> quite
> > similar for graves of the same epoch. It would
> seem
> > that no clear conclusions can be drawn from such
> > orientations. Focusing on grave shapes is slightly
> > more helpful.******
> >
> >
>(TP) Unless of course one wants to (over?)interpret
> informations given*****GK: The problem with that is that the "north" and
> by a certain author to the point of ascribing to the
> non-east-west
> graves a connection with a sub-ethnos (eg. from the
> Caucasus) living
> within the majority Iranic-cultured people, eg. as
> the result of war
> and subsequent exchange of hostages, the timing of
> which would then
> be set by the appearance of the first non-east-west
> graves.