Name of the Goths

[Michael Erwin]

Thanks, but the Celtic languages (for example) do not survive around  
their Central-European birthplaces. None of us know why one language  
sometimes replaces another language and sometimes does not. I'm not  
too familar with early Weilbark archaeology but Heather 1998, pp.  
25-26 states that:

"Only one feature of the earlier phase of the Weilbark culture, the  
appearance of stone circles in cemeteries (27 had been identified by  
1983), was practices earlier in Scandinavia than on the European  
mainland. ..."

Basically he argues that the Oksywie culture develops into the  
Weilbark culture, and that many late Oksywie cemeteries are early  
Weilbark cemeteries, and that historical sources put the Goths on the  
Vistula by the late first century, phase B1b, while the stone circles  
appear in the early second century, phase B2 (though much earlier in  
Scandinavia).


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