[gothic-l] Baltic cultures: was Re: Digest Number 538

[Tore Gannholm]

>
>  > Dirk,
>>  You have a very good list in "Gothic connections",  although most
>of
>>  the Swedish are missing.
>>  I will pic a few
>>
>>  H. Hansson Gotlands bronsålder 1927
>>  M Stenberger Ölands järnålder 1933
>>  M Stenberger Det forntida Gotland 1945
>>  B Nerman Yngre Bronsålder- En första svensk vikingatid 1954
>
>
>O dear, please read J. Blischke's article (op. cit.) on the history
>of research on the Goths. These authors now belong to this history!
>
>Also, I noted that you gave no answer to my first question. So I
>shall ask again: Please provide the name of this common Baltic
>culture that existed in 300BC. Also, could you explain how the
>Oksywie culture, Przeworsk culture and the West-Baltic culture fit
>into this common Baltic culture. All of these cultures existed in
>300BC and are clearly distinguishable from each other.
>
>Dirk

Dirk,
If Blischke considers the Gotlandic archaeological finds as history, 
he is not credible. The monuments and archaeological finds are very 
much there.
Some have been stolen and sold to museums such as Berlin and British museum.

The majority is still here. I can't see any other way than to compare 
what we have in Gotland with what the archaeologists find in Poland.

Pottery is one way find out contacts. Here is one example:

The Otterböte pottery constitutes a vast material which has been 
re-analysed during recent years. In a dissertation at Stockholm 
University, Kenneth Gustavsson shows that most of the pottery found 
at Otterböte is imported. His thesis is strongly supported by an 
analysis of the ware as well as by an analysis of macro fossils 
present in the clay. The vessels were most probably manufactured in 
an area near the Baltic coast in present-day Poland. This indicates 
that the Otterböte hunting place was used by people travelling very 
far indeed. The rusticated, furrowed pottery, typical of the 
Otterböte site was analysed and compared with finds from other sites. 
This pottery occurs mostly on Late Bronze Age sites around the 
Baltic, on the main island of Åland, in the lake Mälaren area of 
eastern Sweden as well as in the Norrköping area, on Gotland, in 
Skåne, east Denmark, on Bornholm and above all in the Lusatian area 
of present-day Poland. Furrowed pottery does not seem to have been 
used in present-day Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and there are only 
minor finds on the Finnish mainland (Gustavsson 1997,p 67 f and p. 
131 f).

Tore
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