Re: The Thrakoid presence in ancient Ukraine

--- Aigius <segijus@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh
> <gknysh@...> wrote:
> > GK: Just a couple of remarks. Note that in
> the
> > time of Herodotus, the "Neuroi" lived as far south
> as
> > the upper reaches of the Boh(g) (= Hypanis) river.
> > This correlates well with hydronymic and
> > archaeological data. But while agreeing that the
> term
> > can be explained in terms of contemporary Baltic
> > languages, I am not so sure that Herodotus'
> "Neuroi"
> > referred exclusively to the ancestors of today's
> > Balts. I am of the opinion that it included
> > populations which were in the process of evolving
> into
> > "Slavs" though in the 5th c. BC they could still
> > easily be mixed up with their northern neighbours.
>
> Can You write more about that archaeological data?

*****GK: The Pidhirtsi cult. (very close to the
Milohrad cult. of Belarus)*****

> What was
> territory of that archaeological culture?

*****GK: It extended from the Pripet to the upper Boh,
and included the area of today's Kyiv.******

Can it be

> that west Balts
> were pushing Niaurai to the east, because Celts were
> pushing west
> Balts?

*****GK: Unlikely for the 6th c. BC. The Celtic ( and
Germanic) eastward push was blocked by the population
of the Lusatian cult. of Poland, itself largely
destroyed by systematic Scythian raids in the first
half of the 5th c. BC******





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