Re: immigration, Germanic and Indo-Aryan

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

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> --- On Thu, 8/28/08, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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> > > GK: On what do you base the continuing importance of
> > > "Przeworsk-talk" in Germania after the collapse of Ariovistus
> > > in 58 BCE?
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> > On the conquest of Thuringia, from which the culture spread
> > northward.
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> > GK: Przeworsk did not spread northward from Thuringia. And in
> > the east, what remained of Przeworsk played a consistently
> > secondary role.
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> Something did. The Tungri arrived in the Northwwest.
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> ****GK: As usual, you are totally confused. The Vandals are not the
> Venedi,

Their common descent was way back in the past in Tacitus' time.

> and the Tungri are not the Thuringii. The Thuringii were unknown
> before ca. 300 CE.

You know very well my views on that.
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/50863

> As late as the 5th century Romans easily distinguished Tungri from
> Thuringii.

Quote?

> In any case, the Tungri mentioned by Tacitus have not been shown by
> professional archaeologists to have been carriers of the Przeworsk
> culture.****

Have they been excavated?


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