Re: Taurisci and Przeworsk

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

> > ****GK: The Taurisci of Noricum were La Tene as to
> > material culture. While Przeworsk counts as one of
> the
> > "LaTenized" cultures of eastern Europe (along with
> > Zarubyntsi, Poeneshti-Lukashovka and others). La
> Tene
> > is as Continental Celtic as it gets. Przeworsk(et
> > al.)would exhibit some La Tene influence,but would
> > otherwise be easily distinguishable from La Tene
> > proper.****
>
> So I guess, given geography, whatever Latène
> influence is discernible
> in Przeworsk, it would have come from the Taurisci
> (those Celtic
> cultures to the west in Thuringia etc the
> Przeworskers were later to
> overrun were not solidly Celtic)?

****GK: The Celtic La Tene "push to the East" involved
many groups, of which only a few names are known. The
Taurisci were active south of the Danube, as were the
Scordisci. There were also groups north of the Danube,
whose specific names have not survived, such as those
who settled in Transcarpathia, and those near Cracow,
and those of Silesia (whom archaeologists connect with
the emergence of Przeworsk along with the Jastorfers),
and the "Galatae" who threatened Olbia ca. 240 BCE,
and those who left the Kobr- placenames in Western
Ukraine (possibly involved in Zarubintsi c.
development). There is no established link between the
known Taurisci and Przeworsk other than the general La
Tene cultural aspects. Note also that the Taurisci
south of the Danube also mingled with local
tribes.****

>
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> Torsten
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