From: george knysh
Message: 64330
Date: 2009-07-03
--- On Fri, 7/3/09, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
GK: 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.
Scholar, not scholars. Boosen.
****GK: He cites others.****
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.
The interesting part is that the provenance of these new elements are not discussed at all.
****GK: Well you picked the source. Find a better one. Surely there are archaeological publications which comment on the identity and provenance of these inventories at least broadly "local" vs. "imports". The ball's in your court here.*****