Where did the Yazigi go ? Was:Re: Fwd: Re: [tied] Re: That old Ario

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

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> After their assault on the Zarubinian fortresses of the Tyasmyn and
> Ros' areas south of Kyiv. The assaults are dated as of the later
> 1rst c. BCE (between ca. 40 and 20).

How were they dated?

> According to Ukrainian archaeologists this was a local war between
> Yazigi and Zarubinians, in the period subsequent to the Burebista
> era.

Why subsequent?

> One has to guess the motives. There is such a dearth of information
> that it's quite difficult.

They might have had a psycho leader who thought he should carve up an empire in the North.

> But one thing is certain: everyone is agreed on this. The Yazigi
> were located in the steppes between Danube and Dnipro at the time
> of the Mithradates saga and after. They were basically still there
> in Augustan times.

Doesn't prove part of them might not have gone elsewhere.

> They are one of the main Sarmatian groups with which he concluded a
> treaty in ca. 2 BCE. Their migration into Hungary did not begin
> until the early years of the 1rst c. AD. There is no record of any
> kind, historical or archaeologicaL of any move into any of the
> Przeworsk areas by them.

Snorri and Saxo are historical sources too.
Where does the whole Sarmatian tradition in Poland stem from?

> At any time in the 1rst c. BCE or AD. There is no record of
> any move there by Zarubinians either, or by any group "from the
> east". Sapienti sat.

See above.


Torsten