From: gknysh
Message: 64252
Date: 2009-06-24
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@> wrote:
****GK: I just wanted to add that one of Shchukin's main points about Slavic ethnogenesis is that their emerging culture shows very little contact with more advanced southern, eastern, and western cultures, and is "fundamentally" a "forest culture". This, in the 6th century if you please. He then retroactively finds the roots of this 6th c. culture in the Kyivan culture of the 2nd-5th cs. The major component of emerging Slavdom, then, is "Baltoid", and all other components are relatively minor (i.e. the fusing Illyrian (Venetic/Venedic), Bastarnian, Germanic, Thracian, Late Scythian, etc..groups).****