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>GK: I think "Grinevichi Welki- Chernichin" because of the area
> mentioned (i.e. the movement of the Polissian Zarubinians into
> Przeworsk territory ) would be the same group that Pashkova calls
> "Chernichinska" culture, which used to be known as the eastern
> Przeworsk, but is increasingly though to have been a separate
> LaTenized culture contemporary to Przeworsk in which the Pomeranian
> element was particularly high. This is one of the "culturally
> Romanized" groups (in the sense of being open to the influence of
> Latin Danubia) which Nosevych identifies with the Peucini of
> Tacitus.== The Late Zarubinian Grini culture on the other hand is a
> key element in many archaeologists' reconstruction of Slavic
> ethnogenesis (incl. Shchukin BTW). It arose around the area of n. 41
> on the map, and then spread around acting as a kind of
unifying
> catalyst leading to the emergence of the Kyivan culture by ca. 200
> CE.
>
Is this it?
Hryniewicze Wielkie
http://dir.icm.edu.pl/pl/Slownik_geograficzny/Tom_XV_cz.1/595near
http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/HryniewiczeIs it in the general geographical area you were thinking of?
Your Chernichin must be
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CzerniczynI ask because you tend to normalize Slavic names by Ukrainifying them, which makes it difficult for me to google them.
Torsten
*****GK: That must be what Nosevych was referring to. The other groups he mentions were more towards the s0uth and east.
We'll leave the "Ukrainifying", "Russifying", "Polonizing" or whatever aside, since I have no wish to open a can of worms. As long as it eventually works out.*****