[gothic-l] Re: archaeology and the gothic question

[faltin2001]

--- In gothic-l at y..., "area1963" <info at a...> wrote:
> Hi to everyone in the list,
> I'm sorry for my poor english and i pity in advance the listers 
that 
> should suffer my literature. I'm not directly interested in the 
> gothic language, (I see is the most common subject in the list), 
but 
> in fact I work as professional archaeologist, and i wish to ask to 
> any eventual colleague about one rare kind of thomb we've found out 
> recently in a site near Madrid. Some people consider it a gothic 
> settlement, but it's a tough question to solve only from an 
> archaeological point of view.
> The site is called Gozquez (toponimic questions apart) and show a 
> disperse-like village extended more than 10 hectars and formed of 
> houses and sunken-featured buildings with its complete cemetery in 
> the middle. The occupation is dated from the first quarter of the 
6th 
> century to the middle of 8th. The half-dozen graves that i want to 
> elucidate form a minimal part of the whole site (the excavation 
> involved more than 350) and are described in the french 
bibliography 
> as "tombes à niches". They look like a normal grave at the begining 
> (the rectangular pit) but display lateral cameras (one or two) 
where 
> the skeletons are buried, normally protected by a wall of stones.
> I found out parallels for this type of grave in the Black Sea 
region, 
> where they are adscribed to the Sarmatian culture, but i don't know 
> other examples in Europe. Some people told me that they 
sporadically 
> compare in the invasions period along middle-Europe.
> May anyone in the list lead me to the apropiate bibliography (if  
> it's available in English or French) or tell me something more 
about 
> this phenomenon? 
> Thank you very much,
> Alfonso Vigil-Escalera


Hello Alfonso,

maybe you should post this question to the European-Archaeology List

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EuropeanArchaeology/?yguid=36954542

There are a lot of professional archaeologists on that list.

cheers
Dirk




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