From: george knysh
Message: 58153
Date: 2008-04-28
>****GK: Find it somewhere else. Milograd was Baltic,
> Nice. I propose that Milograd was Finnic, then.
> That'll give us the
> Finnnic substrate I need for Slavic.
>****GK: You could start here:
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> > > Also, what I can't understand is that if the
> only thing that
> > > separates the Lubieszewo graves from their
> surrounding culture
> > > is the expensive Roman grave goods, why can't
> they be related to
> > > the graves further east which are characterised
> by similar Roman
> > > grave goods? One book I read drew up a shortlist
> of candidates for
> > > possible origin of the Lubieszewo graves: 1.
> Romans, 2. East
> > > Germani, 3. Celts. No eastern candidates. Why?
> >
> > GK: Perhaps because what you call "the graves
> further east which
> > are characterised by similar Roman grave goods"
> are clearly Aorsan,
> > Alanic, Maeotic (Sindic), or of other local
> cultures,
>
> In what sense clearly etc? That they consist of
> Roman expensive stuff
> and local cheap stuff like the Lubieszewo graves, or
> how?
>
>
> > and had representatives thereof moved west some
> evidence of
> > this would have been found in the L.type burials
> > besides Roman imports.
>
> You mean so that the graves would look 'vaguely
> Sarmatian'?
> Could you tell me what type of objects that would
> be? It would have to
> be in the 'expensive stuff' department. On the other
> hand, if you have
> a thoroughly Romanized upper class, like that of the
> Bosporan kingdom,
> what would they (or their wives) want to carry
> several hundred km's
> other than their beloved useless wine-taster sets,
> which Grandad might
> as well get with him in his grave, since no one used
> it any more,
> since the family never made it back to the warm
> countries?
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