yes definitely publish it if you have the opportunity, failing that drawings on RG would be nice, I am particularly curious about the knife and the dagger since weaponry is my foremost interest, although in terms of defining cultural associations the needle may be better since weaponry has both a utilitarian and a prestige aspect that really means they should not be used for establishing culture groups

A s yoy know, usually research is focussed on foreign women.. On my last viisit to Sout Tyrol, they showed my pottery of clearly bavarain typology, separateng both regions an area completey differtent concerning pottery typology. There ist no evidene, that the vessels were made in sout tyro, so we hav eto consider them as importations, as pointed out the researcher who excavated and published them. It would be an important step for 'us and mankind' to follow the question, if there existed in the european bronze age a long WAY distribution of forms, decorations, making techniques.

I have my suspicions that foreign women are focussed on for two reasons.  The first is the foreign brides hypothesis, i.e. the belief that women move to be with their husbands.  This itself may be a hold over from previous views relating to the peaceful prehistoric peoples.  Given that even prehistorians are at last acknowledging that prehistory was as brutal as historical times then given how many examples we have of male 'warriors' coming into an area and taking local wives this hypothesis needs to be looked at again.  The other problem is that items associated with women in burials often have a less functional usage than those associated with male burials and it is therefore easier to sustain a foreign women hypothesis than it is a foreign male, at least in the absence of isotope analysis, which in Britain is suggesting a degree of mobility for both genders.

wrt the pottery, to what extent is the difference between the two area's pottery tradition one of functionality, I regret I am not familiar with the southern German pottery traditions prior to the Roman period.

Hallo Heide,

thanks a lot, this indeed could be helpful.

Greetings Joachim

Hi Joachim,

Please see the article Heide mentioned attached.

I also attach one f my own articles which appeared recently (in fact a paper I presented at that conference in 2011) - it is about the "modern" multicultural situation in Romania, but nearer the end I also indicate a few "foreigner" situations in archaeology and that probably we must consider much more "multi-culturality" in prehistory.

It would be good if you (re-)publish the grave you started the discussion with!

Best wishes

Nick

Hi Nick,

thank your for your article.

Thank you also for animating me to (re-)publish the articl.e

Best wishes

Joachim

This of all I will show the distribution of parallels. As specially focus will be given on the fact, that, that tere ist a parallel at Matrei am Brenner, that means, that close to an highly important alpine pass which connects central Europa with upper Italy. Of the same importances is needle, so it appears propicious to follow not only tjhe parallels of the piece of Geroldshausen, but also those nnedel with parallels from the inner Alps with parallels outsiede the mountain area an viceversa.