[gothic-l] Bastarnae

[Tore Gannholm]

Hi!

I can recommend Rome and the Barbarians in Central and Eastern Europe
Mark B. Shchukin

1st Century B.C. - 1st Century A.D. The end of the La Tène period
BAR International Series 542 (ii) 1989
Tore


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>Hi, Valulfr!
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>
>A favorite sentence of the famous
>Russian archaeologist Mark Shchukin
>(a widely respected expert in the Celtic
>history and a leading specialist
>in exploration of Zarubinetskaya
>and Poyaneshty-Lukashevka archaeological
>cultures, from St. Petersburg) is
>"the Bastarnae were Bastarnae".
>He considers the Bastarnae as belonging
>to "peoples between the Celts and Germans"
>i.e. a third central European nation,
>neither exactly Germanic nor Celtic.
>Having migrated from central Europe
>to downer Danube in some 3rd century B.C.,
>they introduced characteristic La-Tene features
>into two archaeological cultures:
>Zarubinetskaya (middle Dnepr) and
>Poyaneshty-Lukashevka (Moldova).
>Now these cultures are reliably attributed
>to the Bastarnae, conjecturally to the Strabo's
>Atmones and Sidones, respectively. (The third
>Strabo's grouping of the Bastarnae, the Peukines,
>relates probably to Sata Nou, Romania). Moreover,
>Shchukin supposes the Bastarnae as having been
>an important component of the Slavonic genesis,
>but this point of view is not commonly accepted.
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>There are plenty publications in Russian, but
>I can't give references in English, unfortunately.
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>Best regards,
>
>Vladimir
>

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