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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
> The only dramatic thing that I'm aware of concerning the Germani of
the Poznan' area (the province of Wielkopolska) is the recently
renewed interest in the Przeworsk and Wielbark cultures, stimulated
by the discovery of numerous new sites (graves and cemetries,
sanctuaries, settlements, and even a salt-extraction plant) found in
the course of "rescue excavations" along a proposed gas pipeline
since the mid 1990s. Further discoveries can be expected if the
archaeologists don't run out of funding. It seems the most important
event in the political life of the region about the beginning of the
common era was the expansion of the Wielbark culture from Pomerania
into northern Wielkopolska at the expense of the local Przeworsk
culture in the first decades AD. The boundary between the two
cultures was very sharply defined. The Wielbark "Goths" withdrew from
the area about the beginning of the third century.
>
> Piotr
>
Thank you. Are the Przeworsk and Wielbark cultures known under any
other names, Peschel doesn't seem to mention them (he wrote in the
GDR in the 70'es). But I was wondering about the first century BCE?
Torsten