Re: On the ordering of some PIE rules

> > 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"...****
> >

Let me rephrase.
Can those objects which appear in the Lubieszewo graves be placed in a
morpho-temporal sequence such that preforms of them exist already in
pre-Roman Przeworsk non-princely graves (I'm trying to sound like a
German archaeologist here), or do they (or some of them) appear to
represent something new and hitherto unknown?


Torsten