Cultural incursions in the Germanic area

> John <jdcroft@...> wrote:
> Re: Cultural incursions in the Germanic area.
>
> The first culture that developed in what was later to be the

Germanic

> area was the Ertbolle sub-Neolithic, a pootery making culture of
> hunters and gatherers. It is assumed by many (not all) that

Ertbolle

> culture developed out of the Maglemosian culture of the North Sea

and

> the Jutland peninsula, influenced by the spread of 1st Danubian
> (incised ware) farmers.
>
> There was then an associated influx of 1st Western farmer peoples,
> who introduced a megalithic culture from the West Atlantic. Some
> people have suggested that these West Atlantic people were of an
> Ibero-Maurasian derived (proto-Afro-Asiatic) culture. Recently a
> Berberish sub-stratum has been detected beneath the languages of

the

> Atlantic celts. This research is proceeding and is highly
> contentious. Some have also dected an Afro-Asiatic substrata

beneath

> Germanic also, but this is far from being agreed upon by most
> researchers.
>
> The next cultural intrusion into the Germanic area (Northern

Germany,

> Jutland and southern Scandinavia) was of a Battle-Axe culture.

These

> people are generally assumed to have been speakers of a Proto-
> Germanic dialect. Similar battleaxe cultures also spread through

the

> whole of the Baltic area and destict Slavo-Baltic and Germanic sub-
> varieties can be determined. This culture was also lovcated at
> Fatyanovo which in historic times was of Funno-Ugric speakers, but

at

> this time may have had a superstratum of early Indo-Eurpean people.
>
> After this last incursion there is no real presence of new

intrusive

> cultures into the Germanic area. Most Indo-European scholars
> consider Germanic to have developed in isolation since that time.
> There is some Celtic influence (eg *briga (Celtic) *burgh

(Germanic))

> but this seems to have come from La Tene times (The Gundesrup

Caldron

> is celtic but found in a Germanic context).
>
> Yair, I wonder if the Semitic influence you are picking up in
> Germanic is not the Afro-Asiatic substratum?
>
> Regards
>
> John