Re: Bident stuff

--- On Wed, 9/9/09, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
> Why maintain a distinction between areas where a tamga was a tamga
> and areas where they were used only for decoration?
>
> GK: Cf. Yatsenko. He's studied the stuff for nearly 30 years.
> If he says that Sarmatians did not gakk their spears in the period
> 150-250 CE, I believe him...

He interprets the facts that certain tamgas disappeared on the steppe and then reappeared on Germanic territory to mean that those clans became extinct on the steppe and then the Germanic clans started using them, without really claiming descent, except possibly thought women. The economic solution is instead that those Sarmatian clans physically moved on to Przeworsk territory, creating a hierarchic mixed culture on the process.

****GK: You've not found a single Sarmatian grave in Przeworsk (no one has). There are plenty in Chernyakhiv. Which coincides with the historical data. The economic solution is Yatsenko's, esp. since his gakk decorated spears are found in exclusively Germanic graves.*****