[gothic-l] Re: On the Possible Scandinavian Origin of the Goths

[faltin2001]

--- In gothic-l at y..., "Bertil Haggman" <mvk575b at t...> wrote:
> Andreas,
> 
> Your difference with Andrzej Kokowski are noted
> and your preference for Heather and Wolfram is
> well known to listmembers.
> 
> Gothically
> 
> Bertil



If you read Kokowski's main publications on the Goths 
like "Archäologie der Goten: Goten im Hrubieszów-Becken"  
or "Bestattungssitten der Goten am Beispiel des Friedhofs der 
Maslomecz-Gruppe", etc. you will find that Kokowski does not differ 
from Heather or Wolfram. His method, oulook and findings are very 
similar to that of Bierbrauer. Kokowski clearly states that the 
Gothic Wielbark culture originated in the area at the Vistula and 
that the etnogenesis of the Goths took place in the same region.

Dirk 
BTW Kokowski is co-author of an exhibition on the Vandals which will 
start in March 2003 at the castle of Bevern near Bremen. The 
exhibition follows on the exhibition on the Goths (Schaetze der 
Ostgoten) which was held at the same place in 1995.




> 
> my friend Andrzej Kokowsi, who is responsible for "Die Schätze der 
> Ostgoten", is an excellent archeologist, but unfortunately not a 
> historian and he did not use (and did not cite) Wolfram's and 
> Heather's books on the Goths for his historic introduction, but 
relied 
> on older historic literature. In the archeological part of the 
catalogue 
> he follows the mainstream of modern Polish archeology and defines 
> the Wielbark culture as autochthonous. His attempt to combine Ernst 
> Schwarz and Wenskus as historians with his archeological expertise 
> gives a misleading picture. It was a nice exhibition at Holzminden 
> (and I gave a lecture on the history of the Goths there which gave 
a 
> slightly different view at least to the people who attended it), 
but I 
> would not rely on Andrzej Kokowski's historic introduction to the 
very 
> fine archeological catalogue he produced for it.


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