[gothic-l] archaeology and the gothic question

[area1963]

Hi to everyone in the list,
I'm sorry for my poor english and i pity in advance the listers that 
should suffer my literature. I'm not directly interested in the 
gothic language, (I see is the most common subject in the list), but 
in fact I work as professional archaeologist, and i wish to ask to 
any eventual colleague about one rare kind of thomb we've found out 
recently in a site near Madrid. Some people consider it a gothic 
settlement, but it's a tough question to solve only from an 
archaeological point of view.
The site is called Gozquez (toponimic questions apart) and show a 
disperse-like village extended more than 10 hectars and formed of 
houses and sunken-featured buildings with its complete cemetery in 
the middle. The occupation is dated from the first quarter of the 6th 
century to the middle of 8th. The half-dozen graves that i want to 
elucidate form a minimal part of the whole site (the excavation 
involved more than 350) and are described in the french bibliography 
as "tombes à niches". They look like a normal grave at the begining 
(the rectangular pit) but display lateral cameras (one or two) where 
the skeletons are buried, normally protected by a wall of stones.
I found out parallels for this type of grave in the Black Sea region, 
where they are adscribed to the Sarmatian culture, but i don't know 
other examples in Europe. Some people told me that they sporadically 
compare in the invasions period along middle-Europe.
May anyone in the list lead me to the apropiate bibliography (if  
it's available in English or French) or tell me something more about 
this phenomenon? 
Thank you very much,
Alfonso Vigil-Escalera



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