--- On Thu, 1/14/10, Torsten <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> > GK: My point is that you have not adduced any evidence proving
> > that the Germanic language spread from a "Przeworsk" area
> > heartland, either from a linguistic or from any other point of
> > view.
>
> http://tech. groups.yahoo. com/group/ cybalist/ message/56782
>
>
> GK: Exactly. Message 56782 invites you to demonstrate the
> Przeworsk area as the "locus a quo" for the spread of Germanic.
Well, read the thread then.
****GK: There is nothing in the thread proving your points about the expansion of Germanic from Przeworsk.****
Germania was colonized from the area of the upper Elbe,
****GK: This would be the Suevan expansion begun by Ariovistus and continued by others? But as has been known for a long time, the Elbe Germanic Suevans were not the only Germanics. And they did not expand (at least there is no known archaeoloical evidence to that effect) either to the northeast or to the southeast (into Oksywie-Wielbark or into Bastarnia), or into Scandinavia.****
which itself earlier was colonized by an upper caste coming from the Przeworsk culture.
****GK: (1) This is an unproved assumption. (2) Przeworsk itself was earlier Germanized by Yastorf elements coming in from the West and Northwest.*****