Pachkova on Zarubinia and neighbours

From: george knysh
Message: 67802
Date: 2011-06-17

I've just received her volume, but it'll take some weeks (due to other occupations) for me to digest it. It looks like a very impressive piece of work. One preliminary item I noticed. Pachkova (along with many other archaeologists) thinks that what had heretofore been interpreted as the "southeastern component" of the Przeworsk culture, i.e. the sites and finds of the Lublin area in Poland and the upper Dnister and West Volynian finds of Ukraine [in the period c. 200 BCE-> c. 200 CE] are actually a distinct East European LaTenized culture. Even today it is called the "Chernichensk group". What makes it special is its substrate, which is apparently much more strongly Pomeranian than any other in the area (though the group also has its Yastorf component).  Chernichensk had very strong archaeological ties with Zarubinia, more particularly with its Polissian group (which I called Zarubinia group 1), even before the massive migration of Zarubinia 1 southward in the mid-1rst c. CE which led to a cultural fusion immediately prior to the Gothic epoch. All this has important implications, certainly as to the identity of the "Late Bastarnians" of Tacitus, and perhaps also as the issue of the "Igylliones" (but the latter item needs more analysis). I'll come back to this after absorbing her opus.