[gothic-l] Re: Baltic Amber

[James Young]

The absence of amber in Gothic deposits doesn't mean they weren't involved in the trade. Their location puts them in a good position to act as middle men in transactions between the Baltic and Black Seas. I'm comfortable that they were at least involved in the trade even if they didn't dominate it. I'm much less sure about the Goths pre-Christian monotheism, but I'm a little behind in reading; maybe you've already corrected that too.

semiconsrback <adan-pol at worldnet.att.net> wrote:Absence of amber on the gothic grave deposits doesn't mean anything.
The goths are famous for burying their dead without weapons, that
would mean they didn't have any weapons at all, if we follow your
reasoning here, and this is totally absurd.



--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "faltin2001" <dirk at s...> wrote:
> --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "James Young" <daddio52 at s...>
wrote:
> > As early as the Agustus era a merchant was sent to the Baltic to
> make
> > purchases of Amber He reported back that there was a
sophisticated
> > wholesale system established on the coast. Could this have been
> > controlled by the Goths?
>
>
>
> Hi James,
>
> I think this is unlikely. Firstly, the really big amber deposits
are
> found at the Samland coast of the former German province of East
> Prussia, which was outside Gothic settelment areas. Note, the
Gotones
> did not live at the coast itself, as suggested by Tacitus, but
lived
> further south inlands. Secondly, amber is rare among
Gothic/Gothonic
> grave deposits, suggesting that they had no direct access to it.
> Instead, amber objects are a frequently found in the graves of the
> Baltic people who lived at the Baltic sea coast just north of the
> Gotones.
>
> Cheers
> Dirk



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