From: george knysh
Message: 56343
Date: 2008-03-31
> Translation****GK: Torsten, could you check Hachmann in this
>
> > Rolf Hachmann
> > Germanen und Kelten am Rhein in der Zeit um
> Christi Geburt, p. 36
> > in
> > Rolf Hachmann, Georg Kossack, Hans Kuhn
> > Völker zwischen Germanen und Kelten
> > Schriftquellen, Bodenfunde und Namengut zur
> Geschichte des
> > nördlichen Westdeutschlands um Christi Geburt
> >
> "
> If we extract the totality of all these phenomena
> we get the
> following picture: The area east of the Rhine
> limited by the Lippe
> river to the North and by the upper Leine valley to
> the East is in the
> essential a part of the late Latène culture which
> reaches from
> England and France in the West to southern Poland
> and Hungary in the
> East. It is connected very closely to the core area
> of this culture,
> although not completely identical to it in every
> detail. The existence
> of abundant amounts of handmade ware beside potter's
> wheel made ware
> presents just as many local peculiarities as the
> funeral custom, which
> has had the effect that here in the North numerous
> grave finds are
> present, whereas hardly any graves are known in the
> core area of the
> Latène culture. These and other particular phenomena
> characterize the
> area between the Rhine and the Leine valleys as a
> "barbarian
> peripheral area" of the Latène culture in certain
> respects, clearly
> separate from it and yet part of it ... .
>
> In no way are we dealing here with a cultural area
> superficially
> assimilated by having taken over a few cultural
> markers./etc. cut foreconomy/