Re: [tied] Re: Cimmerians

--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@..., george knysh <gknysh@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> > > --- In cybalist@..., george knysh <gknysh@...>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > the
> > > > "Tauri" (no relation to the Taurisci),
> > >(TORSTEN) Why not? The times match (almost);
> Tauri
> > disappear
> > > 200 BCE, Taurisci appear 250-225 BCE. See the
> > > ethnohistory
> > > link I sent to Alex.
> >
> > *****GK: There is nothing Celtic about the Tauri
> of
> > the Crimea. The Taurisci enter history as a Celtic
> > tribal unit of the La Tene culture. Vague sound
> > similarities (Tauri/ Taurisci;
> > Cymru/Cimbri/Cimmerians; Getae/Goths;
> Scythians/Scots;
> > Romans/Roma etc. etc.) are not a hopeful method
> for
> > the reconstruction of historical events in the
> absence
> > of additional textual , archaeological,
> ethnographic,
> > linguistic etc. corroborations.*******
> >
> >
> This link
>
>

http://www.rastko.org.yu/arheologija/ajovanovic-nekropole.html

>
> might interest you, especcially w.r.t. grave forms.
> Although he
> doesn't supply it as a scenario, I think his data
> are not
> incompatible with a mass immigration from the Pontic
> region in the
> first century BCE.

*****GK: This is the last time I shall waste my time
in reading the material at links you provide. Enough
is enough. There is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING here which can
be even remotely construed to back up your conclusion.
The only grave with North Pontic affinity is a SINGLE
inhumation burial in Moesia Superior. Everything else
is clearly, unequivocally, and convincingly associated
with other areas.*******

>
> Torsten
>
>
>

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