Re: Charudes - Croatians

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> > > We can even hypothesize that the borrowing of the Germc.
> > > *hurwa- 'horn-armor' took place somewhere in the sub-Carpathian
> > > region, and that its source was the PGermc. dialect of the
> > > Bastarnians, who dwelt along the eastern Carpathians in the
> > > first to third centuries A.D.
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> GK: The Bastarnians disappear from the area some two hundred years before the arrival of the Slavs.

http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Bastarnae
http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Slavs

Tell me where these are wrong then.

****GK: Shchukin is almost certainly right as to the issue of Slavic ethnogenesis, and more than certainly wrong as to the extent of Bastarnian settlement in Eastern Europe. The early Bastarnians of the interior are identifiable with the Poeneshti-Lukashovka culture between the Carpathians and the Dnister river (which is where Strabo, Pliny and Ptolemy have them). They disappear by the time of Diocletian. There is no evidence of an early frontier with the Slavs.*****