--- tgpedersen <
tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> That is a workable scenario; I'll grant you that.
> But as Steve Long
> pointed out: Where are the protests from the other
> chroniclers?
*****GK: Well the institute of the "proterviens" with
its attendant "correctorium fratris thomae" attitudes
did not become established in the West until the rise
of the universities. And even then it was never a
totally comprehensive practice. If we were to accept
as established everything written by old authors which
was not protested by a contemporary, we would be in a
pretty pickle indeed. I might guess that since by the
end of the 4th c. there were no Getae or Daci left
that mattered, no one really cared about the
(mis)identification, just as no one cared about
continuing references to "Scythians", "Budini" or
"Gelones" etc..*****
>
> And what did you think of the Bronze Age shields and
> spears, BTW?
> Where would you place them?
*****GK: Apparently some of them have already been
placed. Is there a reason not to accept this? I am not
a professional archaeologist. BTW have you any
arrowheads ?******
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