Taurisci (Was:Re: Kossack's Conclusions)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

>
> En passant.....

And he's back!

> --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
> > I was wondering why Jordanes thinks Burebista attacks the Germans,
> > http://www.harbornet.com/folks/theedrich/Goths/Goths1.htm
> > whereas Strabo thinks he attacked the Taurisci.
> >
> http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Strabo/7E*.html
>
> ****GK: Perhaps Jordanes believed that Burebista's
> great expedition against Critasirus went as far as
> Raetia, which in his time was part of Frankish-ruled
> Swabia. Not at all impossible.****

Erh, hm, well, perhaps not.

No, I thought, since you're the archaeology guy, if I follow the
Popper rules and claim something outrageous, then you can dig up
something archaeological which will rapidly disprove it. Do we know
anything archaeologically about the Taurisci, or Ptolemy's Teuriochaimai?
http://www.mittgard.de/archiv/hermunduren/
cf.
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/14404

Is there any archaeological sense in which they are (Przeworsk) Germani?


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