[gothic-l] Re: Germanic Migrations

[dirk at SMRA.CO.UK]

--- In gothic-l at egroups.com, MCLSSAA2 at f... wrote:
> --- In gothic-l at egroups.com, dirk at s... wrote:
> > ... Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia ...
> > One short question. If the first Germans came to this area say
> > Thuringia in 500 BC from Scandinavia as you seem to suggest, who
was
> > living there before this. The area was never settled by Celts.
Were
> > they the remnants of the earlier megalithic cultures?
>
> Likely speaking a non-Indo-European language, which perished
> unrecorded while the Middle East had had writing for over 1500
years.
> It is one of the greatest pities in linguistics that parchment
wasn't
> invented much sooner. Literacy needs bulk available writing
material,
> which meant:-
>   (1) The area being arid enough for clay tablets to survive, or
>   (2) The area being within sailing range of Egypt to import blank

> papyrus, plus having something to trade for it.
>   Central Europe is neither.
>   Until someone discovered how to make parchment from animal skin.



Actually, Indo-Europeans had by that time long reached the area in
question, if we see cultures like the Battle Axe people and
Bandkeramiker (don't know the English word) as Indo-Europeans.


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