From: tgpedersen
Message: 58176
Date: 2008-04-29
>Does the manner in which the assimilation took place inspire
>
> --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh
> > <gknysh@> wrote:
> > > --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Nice. I propose that Milograd was Finnic, then.
> > > > That'll give us the Finnnic substrate I need for Slavic.
> > >
> > > ****GK: Find it somewhere else. Milograd was Baltic, not
> > > Finnic.****
> >
> > Because ... ?
> ****GK: The material culture is closely related to
> similar ones north,west,and east, all considered
> Baltic. It is nearly identical to the Pidhirtsi
> culture of Ukraine (considered Baltic), it is quite
> different ffrom more northern cultures (like Dyakovo)
> considered Finnic, and it is located in an area of
> nearly universal Baltic hydronyms (no Finnic ones).
> Milograd/Pidhirtsi was assimilated into Zarubintsi and
> became part of Shchukin's "Bastarnian" complex.****