[gothic-l] Proto Germanic - Indo European Speculations

[Bertil Häggman]

The attempts to date Germanic origin has
resulted over time in various results. There
is of course no "truth" among these attempts.
Some scholars have recently moved forward
in time. The problem with trying to equate
the Jastorf culture (Denmark, south
Scandinavian peninsula Denmark, and northern
Germany) with the "origin" of Germanic
culture is that it does not account for the
peoples in between.

Some recent writing (Mallory for instance) has
claimed that retreating further back into
history would carry beyond the definition of
Proto-Germanic into the very vague realm
of northwest Indo-European or late Indo-
European. There is however continuity
in the archaeological and physical anthro-
pological record of northern Europe back
into the Nronze Age. The continuity goes
on as far as back to the middle and later
Neolithic in South Scandinavia. The Corded
Ware culture for instance is by many
associated with the first appearance of
Indo-Europeans in the north.

Germanically

Bertil Haggman


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