Re: The Early Germans


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On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 21:59:21 GMT, "Alan Crozier"
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Thanks for that link, Peter.

Interesting that Todd on page 20 conveys an opinion on the
origin of the Gundestrup cauldron:
"a work of an eastern Celtic master based on the lower Danube in
the later secondor earlier first century BC".

AFAIK this is the standard interpretation, I have heard it a couple
times before.
Yes, it is. But, as Uwe has pointed out, there are arguments against
that interpretation.
Me ? I believe in the Danube - theory.

After all, somehow these elephants must have ended up on
the cauldron, and they weren't rampaging through northern Jutland at
200BCE. - Neither, of course, through Dacia. But it is far easier to
imagine that a Dacian silver smith knew about them than a Germanic
artisan at the end of the world.

Germanic tribes don't come into the play here.
Just as a reminder so as to not muddy the waters further.
It's Thracian against Celt.

I would not be so sure about that. Put the Gundestrup piece in a 2nd c. AD
context (as suggested by the Planetary Vases) and look for silver cauldrons.


Somehow it would be fascinating to find out just how much people knew
about each other in those times. For example, did the news of
Alexanders conquest of the Persian empire spread to northern Europe? -

Almost certainly not.
No Greeks north of Marsillia; gossip in harbour taverns ? Yes.
But as it didn't affext them and they didn't even know where persia was

The adoption of the cline is supposed to have spread in 60 to 80 years first
to the Greeks and then to the Celts (remember the Hochdorf burial). There
should have been intimate and reliable contacts between Celts and Greeks in
Late Hallstatt times. And those ties were close enough to also have
punic/phoenecian furniture distributed north of the Alps.
....

I would assume that they did; big A's war affected the eastern Med,
and was probably taverne talk subject from Syracuse to the Atlantic.

Not in the Iron age. The tradenets seem to have broken down at the end of
the
copper and bronze age.

The tradenet is what those early iron age residences (princely sites) are
all about. And the change in domination of the western Med, after the naval
battles with Etruscans and Phoenecians, shows up fast enough as a difference
in the origin of imported goods in those early Latène burials. They have
direct Greek imports while the late Hallstatt ones show Etruscan
intermediaries. Would all of this have been forgotten to be re-invented in
Phillips time?


snip >

have fun

Uwe Mueller


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