[gothic-l] Ethnogenesis-Two peoples??

[andreas.schwarcz at UNIVIE.AC.AT]

Dear Oskar,
DNA analysis may be helpful in cases where you have identified
settlements and cemeteries before a movement and afterwards
within a relatively short period, as with the Angles, Saxons and Jutes
on the continent and in England or f.i. within the slow southeastern
movement of the Wielbark culture and the spreading of the first
layer of Cernjachov expansion. In fact, gene analysis was already
used for some of the Cernjachov settlements to define the gender of
the buried with interesting results. But when there is a hiatus of half
of Europe and more than a century as between the last Sintana-de-
Mures cemeteries north fo the Danube in the fourth century and the
first Visigothic cemeteries in Spain at the beginning of the sixth DNA
analysis will probably only tell you what you already know from the
written and archeological sources, namely that there is no direct
continuity. The connection between the different Gothic ethnicities is
a political one, not a biological one.
Kind regards
               Andreas
ao.Univ.Prof.Dr.Andreas Schwarcz
Institut fuer oesterreichische Geschichtsforschung
Universitaet Wien
Dr.Karl-Lueger-Ring 1
A 1010 Wien
Oesterreich
tel.0043/1/42-77/272-16
fax 0043/1/42-77/92-72
email andreas.schwarcz at univie.ac.at


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