[gothic-l] Re: Heruls and Archaeology

[george knysh]

--- faltin2001 <dirk at smra.co.uk> wrote:
 Do you know which tribes are seen as the
> carriers of the Western
> Chernyakhovsk and Sintana de Mures cultures in the
> late 4th century?
>
> cheers,
> Dirk

Hello Dirk,
Soviet and Ukrainian archaeologists have demonstrated
the possibility of distinguishing sub-groups within
Cherniakhiv, based on a variety of converging
indicators: settlement types (esp. house types),
burial rites (Chernyakhiv was comprehensively
bi-ritual [inhumation/cremation] but there are many
different kinds of cremation and inhumation rituals),
jewellery, et sim. Without going into great details,
one interesting conclusion was reached: the Slavic
culture which emerges there in the post-Attila period
has no close genetic links to earlier Chernyakhiv
sites which were plausibly identified as
Gotho-Gepidic, Sarmato-Alanic, Scytho-Sarmatian, and
Daco-Getic, only to Slavic sites, and to Slavic and
Baltic cultures further north. The populations which
trekked out in the wake of the Hunnic onslaught were
thus predominantly Gothic,Alanic,Scythian, and Dacian.
I would have to look at the article you mentioned to
see if there is information there which might
correlate with Soviet and Ukrainian findings and allow
us to hypothesize about the early "tribal" composition
of the Chernyakhiv migrants to Germany. I suspect that
whatever that may have been, the process of
Germanization would have proceeded fairly swiftly, as
did the process of Slavization with the Goths of
Reithgotaland. *****

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