01-18-2012, 12:41 AM
Mike,
.....discussion-- I didn't mean that sarcastic.
As opposed to some other postings of mine (other place :wink: ), I think I fully comprehend what you mean, and, yes the affairs with "marketing" Kalkriese do also give me
a slight uneasy feeling here. "Once bitten twice shy."
The interesting thing about Kalkriese was that they were quite "tight" on the probable
scene that happened there and were quite reluctant to directly attribute the finds to that (Varus)battle before 1991-92 AFAIR.
Then the financial fundings got scarcer from about 1994/95 on ..... guess what happened.
Noe, can we compare Harzhorn to Kalkriese ?
Yes and no. :roll:
No, because they didn't expect a battlefield of roman times there, rather more one from the middle-ages. They didn't expect roman incursions after 9AD into Germania Magna that far. As for the Varusschlacht -- ever since the 16th century nearly every place north of the river Lahn has been hold "suspicious" with at least one "local hero/historian" reasoning in favour of it -- this has been a target of jokes from the 19th on.
Yes, because they have been "driving" a "broadsided" press-campaign -- and this from quite early on and early touristic marketing rears its ugly head.
Roman archeology/history seems to be quite popular over here -- why not
exploit it ?!
I won't say more on that until I've read both essays in "Berichte zur Denkmalspflege Niedersachsens" the one mentioned above and the one in Volume I/2011 about the finds from 2008/2010.
So far
Greez
Simplex
Bynote:
An epigraphic paper on an officer of LEGIIII (In German)
http://www.komunikacija.org.rs/komunikac...stdlang=gb
....maybe shedding a little more light (still) on the affair.
The official Press-release (in German -- found no time to translate it, yet):
http://www.archaeologieportal.niedersach...1-2012.pdf
.....discussion-- I didn't mean that sarcastic.
As opposed to some other postings of mine (other place :wink: ), I think I fully comprehend what you mean, and, yes the affairs with "marketing" Kalkriese do also give me
a slight uneasy feeling here. "Once bitten twice shy."
The interesting thing about Kalkriese was that they were quite "tight" on the probable
scene that happened there and were quite reluctant to directly attribute the finds to that (Varus)battle before 1991-92 AFAIR.
Then the financial fundings got scarcer from about 1994/95 on ..... guess what happened.
Noe, can we compare Harzhorn to Kalkriese ?
Yes and no. :roll:
No, because they didn't expect a battlefield of roman times there, rather more one from the middle-ages. They didn't expect roman incursions after 9AD into Germania Magna that far. As for the Varusschlacht -- ever since the 16th century nearly every place north of the river Lahn has been hold "suspicious" with at least one "local hero/historian" reasoning in favour of it -- this has been a target of jokes from the 19th on.
Yes, because they have been "driving" a "broadsided" press-campaign -- and this from quite early on and early touristic marketing rears its ugly head.
Roman archeology/history seems to be quite popular over here -- why not
exploit it ?!
I won't say more on that until I've read both essays in "Berichte zur Denkmalspflege Niedersachsens" the one mentioned above and the one in Volume I/2011 about the finds from 2008/2010.
So far
Greez
Simplex
Bynote:
An epigraphic paper on an officer of LEGIIII (In German)
http://www.komunikacija.org.rs/komunikac...stdlang=gb
....maybe shedding a little more light (still) on the affair.
The official Press-release (in German -- found no time to translate it, yet):
http://www.archaeologieportal.niedersach...1-2012.pdf
Siggi K.
