--- tgpedersen <
tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> >
> > > Haven't you forgotten Strabo?
> >
> > GK: Strabo doesn't know the Alans.
> > >
> Well, he's relevant to the question of
> Iranian->Germanic interaction.
> You should have mentioned it.
****GK: He's not relevant to your dead horse
floggings, Torsten. In the first place he acknowledges
that he knows very little of what goes on east of the
Elbe (7.2.4), except for the tentative location of
some peoples (7.3.14,17). He knows the Bastarnae, of
course, and knows that they are Germanic neighbours of
the Roxolani. He knows that Bastarnians, Roxolans, and
other "Scythians" make incursions across the Danube
against the Getae. Period. End of story. Where's
"your" Iranian->Germanic interaction, i.e.the one that
backs up your fantasy?****
>
> > > Those Lubiesewo princely graves remain a
> problem. Wherever I look
> > > it seems for some reason no one ever considered
> the possibility
> > > that that militarized upper crust you find in
> them could be of any
> > > other origin than indigenous. Seems one has to
> the work oneself.
> >
> > GK: You've tried this before, and somehow it
> never
> > works (:=))). Archaeologists usually know their
> stuff.
> > If these graves had Alanic features they would
> have
> > mentioned it. Those old horse bones sure look
> > attractive don't they? Just kidding.
> > >
>
> What did you mean by 'vaguely Sarmatian'?
>
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/31974
****GK: At that time(2004) I used the term "Sarmatian"
more loosely, for all "non-Scythian" Iranic
populations of the Eurasian steppes (minus the Yuezhi
I think). By "vaguely Sarmatian" I meant a solitary
object vaguely similar to such as could be found in
identifiably "Sarmatian" graves. One occasionally
finds such objects in "non-Sarmatian" burials. They
are meaningless from the point of view of ethnic
identity, just as a Roman sword or helmet in an
otherwise Germanic grave would not necessarily
indicate that a Roman was buried there, even though in
the latter case the similarity was much more than
"vague"...****
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