From: tgpedersen
Message: 64729
Date: 2009-08-13
>Romanized Alans, then. Strange that neither Shchukin or Veselovskiy knew that, if it's so obvious?
> Here's something more recent than Shchukin or Veselovskyi:
>
> http://kronk.narod.ru/library/guschina-zasetskaya-1994.htm
>
> Judging by the contents account (and that's all we have here) the
> burials were of the "catacomb" type. That settles it: this was the
> primary Alanic custom. So these are Alanic graves. Not "barbarized
> Romans" (Veselovskyi) nor "Romanized barbarians" of uncertain
> Sarmatian ethnicity (Shchukin). Yatsenko peripherally speaks of the
> "kurgans" and gakks of this cemetery (in your "tamga feast"
> posting). The Roman influence is probably explainable by the
> political contacts of the Bosporan kingdom. Which was actively
> "sarmatized" from the 1rst c. CE. These Sarmats were Alans (this we
> know from many sources).