From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 56462
Date: 2008-04-02
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From: george knysh
****GK: Does Hachmann not argue that the area ascribed
above to the Chatti belongs to the archaeological
stretch which is under strong La Tene influence? Is it
also one of the territories which is "sui generis",
i.e. which while "strongly influenced by La Tene" is
nevertheless not to be identified with it, because it
has a material "structure" all its own?
We would also like to know if Hachmann et al. consider
this Kassel etc. territory to have exhibited
archaeological continuity in the centuries prior to
the recorded presence of the Chatti.
For what it's worth, the strings of defensive oppida
along the crests of the Thuringerwald and Rhon which
Hubert notes as directed against the Germani does not
involve this Chattic territory (and these oppida
existed from ca. 500 BCE to ca. 110 BCE). Also,
Glauberg is pretty close to Chattiland.****
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May I conclude from this
that nothing about Chatti significantly distinguishes
them from the rest of known Celtic-occupied places
from an archeological point of view ?
Arnaud
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