From: tgpedersen
Message: 23695
Date: 2003-06-21
>I shall religiously observe that important distinction in the future.
> --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> > Terminology
> > A Pre-Roman (Celtic) Iron Age
> > B1 (approx) until 75 CE
> > B2 (approx) 75 CE until 160 CE
> >
> > The map PK provides does not give periods for the
> > finds of
> > Ringknaufschwerter. However he thinks they belong
> > with the finds of
> > chain mail, of which the finds are: 2 B1 in
> > Slovakia, 4 B2 on the
> > right bank of the Elbe, 1 B2 in Schleswig, 1 B2 in
> > Scania, 2 B2/C1 in
> > Poland and several later in Jutland and Fyn. The
> > geographical
> > distribution of the swords is similar (thus out of
> > the range of the
> > Romans!) I was wondering why the Germani didn't
> > cross the Elbe after
> > Varrus' defeat, perhaps the dating of the periods
> > needs revision?
> >
> > The weapons arrived relatively late (or perhaps were
> > given as
> > gravegoods late?) PK point to spheroid chapes
> > (Kugelortbänder)
> > arriving earlier; again the same pattern: early wide
> > distribution
> > from upper Elbe to Holstein and Jutland, later
> > concentrated in
> > Holstein and Jutland (except these are represented
> > on Öland and
> > Gotland too).
> >
> > from
> > Piotr Kaczanowski
> > Aus den Forschungen an der territrorialen
> > Differenzierung des
> > Zuströms römischer Waffenimporte im Barbaricum
> > in
> > Beiträge zu römischer und barbarischer Bewaffnung in
> > den ersten vier
> > nachchristlichen Jahrhunderten
> >
> > I won't recomend that you read it since the last
> > time I did that you
> > asked Piotr to shut me up.
>
>
> ******GK: He told you to shut up concerning your
> increasingly boring and annoying Odin fantasies unless
> you had some credible new evidence to back them up (in
> which case they would no longer be fantasies but
> scientific hypotheses). If Kaczanowski provided such
> evidence you were perfectly free (and still are) to
> present it in argument.*****
> >