Re: Slave trade in Dacia

From: Torsten
Message: 67036
Date: 2011-01-06

> Rolf Hachmann
> Die Chronologie der jüngeren vorrömischen Eisenzeit
> pp. 123-4
...
> "The grave field Poieneşti can be joined relatively easily and very
> convincingly with the Central German [approx. Thuringia and
> environs] chronology (cf. Fig 41).
> http://tech.dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/files/PhaseCorrespondenceBetweenThuringiaAndPoienesti.png
> [the Kobil group is a similar group in Bohemia]
> The late Latène fibula 'mit stufenförmigem Bügel' [with tiered
> body?], of which several occur here, is identical to the Central
> German version of this type. The band-shaped belt hooks with the end
> turned into an eyelet which are found in abundance in Poieneşti,
> look similar to belt hooks, such as are found in eastern Central
> Germany and eg. in Cammer are represented in time group 3, in which
> also the fibulas 'mit stufenförmigem Bügel' appear. From this it is
> obvious, that the Poieneşti group coincides in time with time
> section A of the Central German pre-Roman iron age. It is
> significant, that in Poieneşti late Latène fibulas var. K and their
> contemporaries are completely absent. This doesn't directly mean
> that the Poieneşti group doesn't stretch into time section B, but
> rather, that during time section A it detached itself from that
> Central German culture union to which it must originally have
> belonged. In any case, after detaching itself it had no significant
> further development in the set of forms. Thus one shouldn't assume
> the group lived on for very long after detaching itself"
>
> Which means, in my estimation, that after being routed by Burebista
> the Bastarnae evacuated Poieneşti-Lukaševka-land and migrated to
> Central Germany.

I should point out that this would mean that the Poieneşti group does not, as Hachmann thinks, coincide in time with time section A of the Central German pre-Roman iron age, but predates it.


Torsten