From: gknysh
Message: 64324
Date: 2009-07-02
>****GK: i.e. from 200 BCE through 150 AD. While interesting for Germanic archaeology, I don't notice a single comment by any of these competent scholars which would indicate grave inventories involving any kind of "eastern objects" brought in by inmigrants. So that whatever changes are noted in the Oder/Warthe and other regions in the 1rst c. BCE are changes due to internal dynamics (and afterwards with interaction with the Romans), not to cultural or other influxes from the east. These archaeological facts adequately correspond to the historical documentation, and demonstrate clearly and evidently that the Snorri scenario is without scientific foundations. At the same time the archaeology of Hungary and of the Lower Danube does demonstrate the presence of "eastern migrants" (cf. the Harmatta evidence earlier provided).****
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> Jan Derk Boosen:
> [Based on the primary archaeology of fibula grave gifts, grave finds
> of the Oder-Warthe group from the beginning of the later pre-Roman
> Iron Age