Using DNA to find Goths

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

On 23/07/2006 16:22, OSCAR HERRERA wrote:
> i hardly think the goths were goths if they were mixing with other groups....

Hmm, well, the written sources from the time certainly seem to indicate 
that the Goths were pretty mixed.  I don't think warlords of late 
antiquity were particularly worried about their soldiers' 
ethno-linguistic backgrounds.  "Roman" armies were likely to have as 
many people of Germanic-speaking ancestry as "Gothic" armies, from what 
we can tell.

To put it another way, if the Goths _weren't_ mixing with other groups, 
then we are left with very little idea about who the Goths were (since, 
after all, the Goths we read about were pretty mixed).

Cheers,
Carl

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Carl Edlund Anderson
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