Re: Sorry, no Sarmatians in Przeworsk (Was:Re: Morimarusa)

From: george knysh
Message: 65664
Date: 2010-01-16

This fellow is indeed quite hopeless...

--- On Sat, 1/16/10, Torsten <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

GK: The problem with you ,Torsten, is that you seem incapable
> of understanding that what you consider "disproof" is
> scientifically inadequate.

I haven't said anything of what I consider 'disproof', so I wonder what that's supposed to mean.

> The standard view, which apparently dissatisfies you, is that there
> is no evidence of any significant Sarmatian influx into the area of
> the Przeworsk culture. You have been unable to point to anything
> except "inhumations" , and that per se, is not a defining Sarmatian
> trait.

1) the suddenly appearing upper layer in Przeworsk is characterized by inhumation and expensive Roman grave goods.

2) the graves of the Golden Cemetery are characterized by inhumation and expensive Roman grave goods.

Nothing characteristically 'Sarmatian' about either.


Cf.
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/64735

The Przeworsk inhumations are not of any known Sarmatian type, unlike those of the Kuban. Elementary science, too complicated for our Odin fan.