05-10-2009, 07:53 PM
O.K. First for the angry part: we are back in times where you get thrown out in the midst of writing some lines here and pressing "Preview".
There were recent times when I seemed not to have this problem.
So--- now back "to the meat" :
As usual I found a good reference on my favourite Blogspot Archeonews:
[url:2j9xobuo]http://www.epoc.de/artikel/994247&_z=798890[/url]
Therein German archeologist Dr. Rudolf Aßkamp from the Haltern Museum introduces the results of the most recent research on 24 male skeletons found in a potery oven during the 90's to the press. These skeletons did not belong to Romans, but to Germans, where some came from the vicinity of Haltern, some from more remote areas like the Black Forrest or Bohemia, so the results of analyzing the composition of their teeth.
Dr. Aßmann goes on to reason that these Germans may have attacked the Haltern main camp after the Varian battle and the subsequent withdrawal of roman forces behind the Rhine."No single germanic group was so stupid to attack this military installment as long as it was fully manned with thousands of roman professional soldiers." It was therefore more probable that they later attacked the roman "leftover" forces, he goes on.
In that case the roman forces would have left Haltern not as assumed till today, in 9 AD, --- but later.
This reasoning would pose far-reaching consequences on German Roman Archeology.
Up to now the so-called "Haltern-Horizon" (=the "youngest" roman finds at Haltern) has been the benchmark for dating roman findings of the augustean era before or after 9 AD.
"If the Haltern Horizon" is shifted backwards for 5 or 6 years, we have to assume that many other finds are younger than previously assumed," says Aßkamp.
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So far -- so good ?
Now what about prisoners or hostages butchered shortly after the news about the Varus Battle got 'round ?? :roll:
Interesting theses, but alas, don't we live in interesting times anyway ? :wink:
Greez
Simplex
Mission accomplished at last .
P.S.: More on this here (also in German)
[url:2j9xobuo]http://www.ruhrnachrichten.de/haltern/lokal/halo/art900,554602[/url] a
lso from Archeonews, but earlier
(More informations-- more precisely)
There were recent times when I seemed not to have this problem.
So--- now back "to the meat" :
As usual I found a good reference on my favourite Blogspot Archeonews:
[url:2j9xobuo]http://www.epoc.de/artikel/994247&_z=798890[/url]
Therein German archeologist Dr. Rudolf Aßkamp from the Haltern Museum introduces the results of the most recent research on 24 male skeletons found in a potery oven during the 90's to the press. These skeletons did not belong to Romans, but to Germans, where some came from the vicinity of Haltern, some from more remote areas like the Black Forrest or Bohemia, so the results of analyzing the composition of their teeth.
Dr. Aßmann goes on to reason that these Germans may have attacked the Haltern main camp after the Varian battle and the subsequent withdrawal of roman forces behind the Rhine."No single germanic group was so stupid to attack this military installment as long as it was fully manned with thousands of roman professional soldiers." It was therefore more probable that they later attacked the roman "leftover" forces, he goes on.
In that case the roman forces would have left Haltern not as assumed till today, in 9 AD, --- but later.
This reasoning would pose far-reaching consequences on German Roman Archeology.
Up to now the so-called "Haltern-Horizon" (=the "youngest" roman finds at Haltern) has been the benchmark for dating roman findings of the augustean era before or after 9 AD.
"If the Haltern Horizon" is shifted backwards for 5 or 6 years, we have to assume that many other finds are younger than previously assumed," says Aßkamp.
------------------
So far -- so good ?
Now what about prisoners or hostages butchered shortly after the news about the Varus Battle got 'round ?? :roll:
Interesting theses, but alas, don't we live in interesting times anyway ? :wink:
Greez
Simplex
Mission accomplished at last .
P.S.: More on this here (also in German)
[url:2j9xobuo]http://www.ruhrnachrichten.de/haltern/lokal/halo/art900,554602[/url] a
lso from Archeonews, but earlier
(More informations-- more precisely)