From: george knysh
Message: 21571
Date: 2003-05-06
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski******GK: I've got the latest literature on the
> <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
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