jussipussi kirjoitti:Siitä päättelin, että Baltian rannikko oli pronssikauden lopussa germaaninen. Löydöt tämänkin jälkeen olivat saman suuntaisia, mutta saivat vaikutteita idästä.
Jaha? Lang näkyy muuten löytävän kiviarkkuhaudoille esikuvia myös mm. Väinäjoelta ja Kuurinmaalta:
"Interestingly, the oldest dated graves in Estonia contain grave goods of the local tradition and no imported items. It has long been thought that the Estonian stone-cist graves had been modelled on the respective Scandinavian grave form that spread from central Sweden to Finnish coastal areas, and from there reaching northern and western Estonia (Meinander 1954b, 118 ff.; Moora 1956, 73 ff.; Jaanits et al. 1982, 161). The imported items from periods IV–V that were found in the graves seem to support the claim. However, it should be pointed out that the Scandinavian models were built several hundred years earlier than the respective Estonian stonecist
graves, and cremation was the dominant burial custom in Scandinavia and Finland at the beginning of the Late Bronze Age when such graves presumably reached Estonia. The Reznes- and Kalnieši-type barrows on the lower reaches of the Daugava River were long considered to be the oldest above-ground stone-cist graves in the eastern Baltic region (see Graudonis 1967, 31 ff.).
...The tradition of stone-cist graves in the Baltic region seems to be even older, however. An overview of the Pukuļi graves in western Latvia that were excavated 25 years ago was published recently (Vasks 2000). Two important points should be highlighted. First, the general layout of the
Pukuļi graves is strikingly similar to the later stone-cist graves in northern Latvia and northern and western Estonia. Second,
the choice of grave goods in the temporally closer Reznes and Kalnieši barrows is similar to that of many Estonian stone-cist graves. Therefore, it may be that the grave tradition reached Estonia not only from the north and the west, but also from the south through parts of present-day Latvia during the time when the custom of inhumations was predominant, i.e. before or at the beginning of period III, at the latest. The find assemblages from fortified settlements, among other things, shows that northern and western Estonia had close contacts with people on the lower reaches of the Daugava River throughout the (Late) Bronze Age, which could explain the similar character of the grave goods found in both places."
Valter Lang The Bronze and Early Iron Ages in Estonia