--- On Sun, 9/28/08, tgpedersen <
tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
What is the earliest occurrence of the plough that you know of in that
general area?
****GK: I'll check my sources tomorrow.****
And you did notice that Markey is toying with the idea of mr.
Harigasti as the inventor of the Germanic runes, which is odd since we
all know who is supposed to have invented them?
****GK: "Toying" is indeed the operative word. In an area where historical information is at a premium (I'm talking about the Negau helmets, but one can easily tack on the entire Ariovistus story of 72-58 BCE/in fact I'll briefly comment on the inadequacy of your esrlier posted synthesis in that light shortly/) there is always a strong urge to make highly arbitrary connections which superficially fit the known facts but hardly dispose of many other similar and equally if not even more plausible connections or putative "facts". The Boirebista event is a possible context for the Negau burials. But so is the Cimbric onslaught. And we have no real idea about other times and situations in the period of the 5th through the 1rst centuries, since we have no extant documentation.****
Torsten