Using DNA to find Goths
OSCAR HERRERA
duke.co at SBCGLOBAL.NET
Mon Jul 24 15:02:42 UTC 2006
your written sources are wrong.....your tryin to say they were emulating the romans ways , takin in whoever joined their legions....history pretty much states they were a peaceful group and were only in search of a home to live on......oscar
Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at carlaz.com> wrote: On 23/07/2006 16:22, OSCAR HERRERA wrote:
> i hardly think the goths were goths if they were mixing with other groups....
Hmm, well, the written sources from the time certainly seem to indicate
that the Goths were pretty mixed. I don't think warlords of late
antiquity were particularly worried about their soldiers'
ethno-linguistic backgrounds. "Roman" armies were likely to have as
many people of Germanic-speaking ancestry as "Gothic" armies, from what
we can tell.
To put it another way, if the Goths _weren't_ mixing with other groups,
then we are left with very little idea about who the Goths were (since,
after all, the Goths we read about were pretty mixed).
Cheers,
Carl
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Carl Edlund Anderson
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