--- tgpedersen <
tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> >
> > GK: Which of the sites you mention earlier
> are
> > considered Sarmatian? (I had asked you this
> earlier).
>
>(TP) ?? I thought that was the question I should ask
you?
*****GK: You offered a long list of sites in Poland
and elsewhere, but only one of them was directly noted
as "Sarmatian". I was wondering if your source had
mentioned others, and if it provided some description
of the inventory.*****
> > GK: ... many
> fibulae
> > of the "Latenized" cultures (this includes
> Przeworsk
> > and Oksywie) are of an "inter-regional"
> > character.
> > >
>
>(TP) So that we might wonder if they were carried by
> "inter-regional"
> peoples ;-.
*****GK: By "inter-regional" is meant that they
represent a certain style adopted by a number of ethna
and/or distinct groups in a "region" (for instance
"along the Danube" or "from Elbe to Dnister" or the
like) and are not ethnically determined. Sometimes the
origination of a style can be traced to a particular
ethnic group (like La Tene to the Celts),or the
polychromic jewellery style to the Sarmatians
[actually Greek masters working for the Sarmatian
market in many cases] but once an item becomes
"inter-regional" you need more than it to label
ethnicity. The specific burial rite, or other
"ethnically identifiable" objects are infinitely more
useful in this regard than the presence of an
"inter-regional" fibula in the inventory.*******
>
> Torsten
>
>
>
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