[gothic-l] Gepids was Re: Continued Review of _Odin in Azov_

[george knysh]

--- faltin2001 <dirk at smra.co.uk> wrote:
> The East Germanic skeletons also displayed slight
> mongoloid features
> (round skulls, short flat noses, etc.) at times. The
> anthropologists
> cited by Bona, attributed this to a mixing with
> Sarmatians, Huns and
> Alans.
>
> I could imagine that this kind of physical
> similarity among eastern
> people like Goths, Gepids and Heruls in contrast to
> West Germanic
> people like the Langobards could have provided
> ancient authors like
> Jordanes (himself apparently of Gothic-Alanic
> origin) with additional
> reason for putting them into one category.

*****GK: What's curious is Jordanes' lumping together
of Goths and Gepids (Heruli not included here).
Perhaps this was also due to the Gepid control
("Gepedoios") for some time of the area previously
held by the Goths ("Gothiscandza"). Archaeologically,
the Wielbark Goths evolved into the Chernyakhiv Goths,
while the Gepids apparently stayed at the Late
Wielbark stage (many of them at any rate). But the
point about fusions with eastern steppe peoples (esp.
Huns) seems valid.*******
>

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