From: george knysh
Message: 64559
Date: 2009-08-02
--- On Sun, 8/2/09, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:
GK: Here is another source about burial practices in the area of and near the amber road in the 1rst-4th cs. CE:
http://club- kaup.narod. ru/kaup_r_ kylakov_hist_ of_prussia_ 1283_4.html
The Lubsow graves are also mentioned. There is no difficulty in seeing them as Germanic. The author is quite familiar with the differences and similarities of burial practices among various ethna (interestingly he also mentions the West Balts who were immediate neighbours of the Germanics in the north, and opines that the biritualism of Wielbark was partially a borrowing from that source (the other influence being Marbodian))
****GK: Correction. Here is the Kulikov text on this: "The characteristics of the burial rite of the amber country which exemplifies equine headgear of the Proto-Vimose and Vimose type [GK: i.e. the Celtic stuff] are particularly interesting. Thirty years ago [GK 1974. Unfortunately the K. online version doesn't include the title of the sources]the most authoritative (and heretofore the sole) investigator of the burial ritual of the Aestii of Roman times, Jan Jaskanis, had somewhat a priori noted the West Baltic origin of the biritualistic tradition of the 1-4 cs. in southeastern Baltia... But in fact we lack foundations for the assertion of the West Baltic authenticity of the carriers of the tradition of biritualism in the amber country of Roman times. In the Przeworsk area to the south... the appearance of inhumations... are interpreted as the appearance in the north of some Marcomanni and Quadi (Nieweljowski, A., 1981). What is most likely though is
that this "appearance" (since the (earlier) inhumations are principally female) is to be interpreted as the existence of matrimonial relations between ethnically related communities."****