construction of gothic scandinavian urheimat

[Michael Erwin]

On May 8, 2008, at 3:15 AM, OSCAR HERRERA wrote:
> i i think our suppositions are unfounded about the goths.....they  
> migrated from gutland to the european mainland and transgressed with  
> their migration south thru centuries...we understand little about  
> the germanic tribes and their customs before medeival times so  
> supposition means little of them or the goths....i think its pretty  
> obvious that germanic tribes expanded thru population then and  
> simultaneously descended thru out europe.....i think the goths did  
> the same with no help of other races or cultures around them....
>

In the Anglo-Saxon case, it's well-established that it was mostly re- 
identification and assimilation, not migration. In the Gothic case,  
the historical evidence for re-identification is clearer than the  
Anglo-Saxon case, though unfortunately the genetic evidence is not  
available. (Wulfila himself was descended from non-Goths).
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