--- tgpedersen <
tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> > > Let's say some Dandarian nobility passed by and
> later migrated
> > > south and west. Would they necessarily pick up
> local luxury
> > > knick-knack, or (if they were big Rome-snobs)
> would they stay with
> > > the wine taster set from back home (of which
> some of the glasses
> > > were of Eastern Roman provenance)?
> >
> > GK: What time frame are you looking at for
> this?
>
> 72 - 58 BCE.
****GK: It is difficult to see why there would have
been such a "migration" at that time (we know of no
Maeotic long-range migrations either before or after).
It is even more difficult to comprehend why, of all
peoples migrating east or west, these Dandarians would
have been the only ones not to leave any
archaeological evidence of their earlier culture. They
were after all a culturally advanced and strongly
"hellenized" population. Finally, and most difficult
of all, why should such a de-identified group be
accepted as a new ruling class by the Suebians and
Przeworkers,esp. since the latter were not interested
in conflicting with the Romans at that time [pre-58
BCE], unlike Mithradates and his allies? And there is
also the issue of a one hundred year time lag between
this "migration" and the appearance of the L.-type
burials, with no clearcut "Dandarian" aspects. All
this is even more improbable than OIT.****
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