Re: Kossack's Conclusions

Interesting points. Didn't realize the Romans were
still pushing aggressively that late. When was the
"Wetterau limes" finally abandoned? I suppose already
by the time of Marcus SAurelius.

--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> >
> > > > GK: Is the implication that Przeworsk here was
> > > > also a victim of the Roman pushes?
> > >
> > > I don't think so. The Roman colonization
> campaigns
> > > and later punitive expeditions did not cross the
> Elbe, AFAIK
> >
> > GK: Sorry. I did not mean the "mother
> Przeworsk"
> > east of the Oder, but the "intrusive Przeworsk" in
> > West Thuringia and in the Wetterau.
>
> That occurred to me later.
>
> You're not gonna believe this:
> I remembered vaguely that read that one of the camps
> of Drusus's
> expedition was placed in the Wetterau, which would
> at least partly
> answer your question./etc./

****GK: Perhaps wholly re the Wetterau Przeworsk.
Hachmann argued that signs of the "intrusion" were
archaeologically gone before the end of the 1rst c.
BCE Which fits in well with the Drusus campaigns.****

I'm still not too clear as to the narrower area where
Hachmann and Kossack discern the earliest archaeology
of the Elbe-Germanic culture.


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