From: tgpedersen
Message: 58224
Date: 2008-04-30
>Or Napoleon being Corsican. *Oþtakos,
>
> --- 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.****