Tribes, peoples and their leaders

[Arthur Jones]

Hello, colleagues,
   
  Michael Erwin wrote:
   
  <We don't know they migrated en masse to Oium, do we?>
   
   
  I believe we discussed this subject a few months ago, although it is always worth another appearance. First, there is substantial archaeological evidence that large numbers immigrated about the same time from the lower Vistula region to the Northwestern Black Sea. A number of graveyards went out of business in the Wielbark culture areas quite suddenly. A few years later, graveyards "opened for business", i.e., received their first clients, in the Chernakov/Sintana de Mures culture(s). The grave artifacts in each location are too similar to the finds in the other sites to admit to coincidentality, especially considering the end of Gothic (and affiliate) presence in the one region followed, according to modern carbon dating methods, by almost immediate appearance in the other. 
   
  This, I accept, runs contrary to very good arguments put forward by our friend and respected colleague Ingemar Nordgren, who favours a migratory "trickle" to my inclination to believe in a "semi-massive and constant flow". Peter Heather compares it to the wagon trains that went westward in the 19th Century United States. This seems quite reasonable to me. Why would any family --they did travel in entire clans, families, etc., and not merely as stiuriliggs (young bull: single males/apprentice soldiers) looking for economic opportunities-- why would whole families walk through unknown, often hostile territories, for nearly 1,500 km, all alone?
   
  I prefer the conclusion that the Ostrogothic warrior bard, Othmar (Audemer), narrated:
   
  "Alaliutha, best of wives,
  Told me then we had no choice;
  We must join the kuni marching.
  South we trod, proud and knowing,
  Shining steeds and shields and axes,
  Glowing hopes as spring unfurled
  Its valley blossoms:
         Pleasant hints
  Of songs to come in forest friendship
        When we at last have land."
   
  With best intentions,
   
  Aizamundareiks
   
  Arthur A. Jones
  arthur.jones at yahoo.com
   
  
 
      We don't know they migrated to Oium en masse, do we?

It could easily involve a few settlers finding opportunities in Oium; 
some travel back to kin back home, word spreads, some travel forward, 
etc.


         


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