From: george knysh
Message: 56464
Date: 2008-04-03
>****GK: Depends on the answers to the above. The
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> From: george knysh
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> 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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