From: tgpedersen
Message: 64405
Date: 2009-07-24
>The later Cotini?
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> A small postscript
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> --- On Wed, 7/22/09, gknysh@... <gknysh@...> wrote:
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> > GK: The Wikipedia Polish-language article on Przeworsk states
> > that this type of burial [flexed ****GK]covers an area "identical
> > to that of earlier Celtic settlements" .
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> But at that time the Celts practised cremation, as mentioned.
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> GK:Inhumations had never entirely gone out of style it seems.
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> ****GK: I only have a tantalizing reference to and report from a book published in 1991 about the Transcarpathian Latene culture (V.H. Kotyhoroshko, Drevnyaya istoriia Verkhnego Potissja, Uzhhorod, 1991, pp. 143-144 ["The ancient history of the Upper Tysa region", in Russian]. It is cited in ch. 3 of the "Etnichna Istoriia Davnjoji Ukrainy" (the chapter is authored by the noted Ukrainian archaeologist D.N. Kozak) (Kyiv 2000, Institute of Archaeology of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, pp.124-125).
> Here is what it states (trans. from Ukrainian)
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> "It is evident that a mixed Celto-Thracian culture emerged in Transcarpathia in the 3rd-1rst cs. BCE. [BTW Ukr. archaeologists use the term "Thracian" to refer to Thracians proper, Geto-Dacians, or northern Thrakoids (GK)]
> The result of the influence of the highly developed culture of the Celts was a sharp rise in the quality of the local economy. An illustration of this is the emergence of such exceptional ("mohutni" GK] (for the epoch) centers for the extraction and transformational utilization of iron as Halish-Lovachka, Novo-Klynovo, and of extremely productive ceramic workshops. There is much evidence for the coexistence of the arriving migrant [the Celts GK] and the local ["Thracian" GK] populations. Burial customs also become mixed. In certain Celtic burials one finds Kushtanovite ceramic ["Kushtanovite": the name of the "Thracian" culture of Transcarpathia before the arrival of the Celts in the early 3rd c. BCE (GK)]Sometimes Celtic burials are performed in accordance with local traditions [I think this means crenmation GK]. And contrarywise, inhumation burials with weapons increase in Kushtanovite cemeteries, as is characteristic for the [Transcarpathian] Celts.
> All this allows us to affirm that in the Upper Tysa region there was a process of Latenization of the Thracians through cultural and ethnic mutual assimilation. It is evident that the local Thracian and the immigrating Celtic population created a certain rather stable symbiosis which lasted for approximately 200 years."
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> The book states that this culture was largely destroyed during the Burebista expansion of the 50's BCE. Its neighbour to the northwest was the Przeworsk culture.****
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