Re: Cimbrer

From: Seppo Renfors (Renfors_at_not.com.au)
Date: 07/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 05:48:48 GMT

Inger E Johansson wrote:
>
> We know that the Cimbrer tribe from Jutland together with the Teutones made
> it down in Europe and during the war against the Roman Army under Maurius
> first major fight was in Noricum(Austria) the Cimbrer army won the fight in
> Orange 105 BC but lost finally against Maurius in Vercelli (Northern Italy)
> 101 BC. Plinus, Ptolemy and Tacitus speaks of them in respect.
>
> The thing I would like to know more about is if anyone knows of proof for
> the assumption made by several scholars during the years that the reason for
> the Cimbrian movement southward in Europe can be found in a sudden rise in
> waterlevels which made part of Jutland hard to live in. I have read many
> theories but not been able to find any proofs one way or an other while
> reading them. Do anyone of you know anything or have a ref to a work or an
> excavation from period 150-100 BC which speaks for or against the waterlevel
> theory.

http://www.livingcosmos.com/1250-1050BC.htm#europe
"One geologist found many places from North Jutland to Dithmarschen,
in the area of the North Sea, with traces of a great flood that
overwhelmed islands and coastal lands: "If we compare the results of
these observations, we have to conclude that a flood coming from the
west once broke over these coasts, far surpassing in height and extent
any other known to history"."

http://www.dur.ac.uk/Archaeology/about_staff/about_staff_lucys.php
"Based on an island off the east coast of Jutland, it aims to
investigate the changing landscape of Als from the Neolithic to the
Viking Period ), and to situate changes in settlement, ritual and the
use of landscape into their broader north European prehistoric context
by relating them to wider societal developments."

http://www.phys.au.dk/ams/kristiansen-jh-burialmounds-2003.pdf

http://www.wssa.net/photo&info/larrymitich_info/palesmartweed.html
"...burned house in Jutland in an Early Iron Age site contained large
amounts of barley, oats (Avena sativa), and wheat and about a liter of
P. lapathifolium seeds (Renfrew 1973)"

Strictly speaking this site has nothing to do with what you asked (too
late in time).... but it is interesting just the same:
http://viking.hgo.se/Newsletter/NEWS2.pdf

>From the above you might hind references to a study or at least from
where to seek further in formation. 

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SIR - Philosopher unauthorised 
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