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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:
> ******GK: The "Carpathian barrows" culture interests both Ukrainian
and Romanian archaeologists. Both groups agree that it is "Dacian".
And Mihailescu-Birliba argues (cf. Acta Musei Porolissensis 21(1997),
pp. 833-878) that it emerged as a result of tribal movements
subsequent to the Roman conquest of Dacia. As to the Carpi, their
culture is dated as of the 2nd-3rd cs. by Bichir and Ionita (sp..)
Interestingly, there is no evidence of any movement from Dacia into
the area dominated by the Costoboci.****
Those "late Dacian" groups visibly interacted (traded, at the very
least) with the East Germanic ("Gothic") settlement area in SE Poland
(Hrubieszów Valley), established before AD 200. It's interesting that
the earliest known version of the name of the Tatra Mts. (a range on
the Polish-Slovak border, south of Kraków) is <Tritri> (1086), which
looks like an Albanoid vocalisation of *tr.tro- (other early versions,
in Hungarian sources, are <Turtur>, <Alpes Tartarum>, etc., which may
have been filtered through a Slavic medium).
Piotr