From: george knysh
Message: 68297
Date: 2011-12-26
--- On Mon, 12/26/11, Torsten <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
But we just agreed that the Atmoni and Sidoni departed from the area in mid-1st century BCE.
****GK: Could you remind me where we agreed to this? I don't seem to remember. ****
(T) But the events of Mithridates' 'Sarmatian and Bastarnian wars' must have 'fixirovatI' itself in the finds one way or another. What else in the archaeology of the region would you point to?
****GK: I don't think anything notable exists for that period except for some indicators in the ruins of Neapolis Scythica that "something was going on" in the late 2nd c. BCE But that would be the earlier conflict with Diophantes, not with the subsequent war with ex-Scythian vassals. Nothing at all in the archaeology afaik until the Bastarnian-Yazig conflicts and the Getan invasion after Mithradates' death, and then after a spell the outmigration of most Moldavian Bastarnians towards Dardania ca. 29 BCE, and the subsequent reconsolidation of their remnants as Tacitus' "Peucini".*****