> And, finally and most importantly, that you are
> perfectly free to advance your hypothesis if you can
> find new evidence for it?
>But there isn't any is there?
I'm looking forward to any counter-argument of yours against Tacitus'
statement that there was a Sarmatian component in the Bastarnian
culture, other than his not being contemporary with the events. Since
we have established that there was an influx into the Jastorf culture
from the Przeworsk culture just before the time most people assume
Proto-Germanic was formed, with Tacitus' information we have a
migration (and at least one loanword) from Indo-Iranian to Proto-
Germanic territory.
Torsten