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Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,<br>
<br>
ich darf Sie auf folgende spannende Neuerscheinung aufmerksam
machen. <br>
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Es geht um einen Fund „Auf den Lahnen“ (Lány) in der Thaya-Au bei
Břeclav (Lundenburg), der die erste ältere Fuþark-Inschrift
darstellt, die in einem nicht-germanischen Kontext gefunden wurde.
Sie deutet darauf hin, dass die mutmaßlichen Vorfahren der modernen
slawischen Sprecher viel früher mit der Schrift in Berührung kamen
als bisher angenommen. Mitautor von der Universität Wien ist Kollege
<b>Robert Nedoma</b> von der Abteilung Skandinavistik des Instituts
für Europäische und Vergleichende Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
sowie dem Institut für Germanistik.<br>
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<font size="+1"><b>Runes from Lány (Czech Republic) – The oldest
inscription among Slavs.<br>
A new standard for multidisciplinary analysis of runic bones</b></font><br>
(Jiří Macháček – Robert Nedoma – Petr Dresler – Ilektra Schulz –
Elias Lagonik – Stephen M. Johnson – Ludmila Kaňáková – Alena
Slámová – Bastien Llamas – Daniel Wegmann – Zuzana Hofmanová)<br>
<b>Journal of Archaeological Science, Volume 127, March 2021, 105333</b><br>
<a class="doi" href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2021.105333"
target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Persistent
link using digital object identifier" title="Persistent link using
digital object identifier">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2021.105333</a><br>
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Highlights</b><br>
• A rune-incised bone discovered in an Early Slavic context making
it the first writing among Slavs.<br>
• The find challenges the presumed sharp dicothomy between Germanic
tribes and Early Slavs in Central Europe.<br>
• Runology, radiocarbon dating and use-wear SEM microscopy
authenticated the find.<br>
• Target-enriched ancient DNA analysis allowed the bone to be
identified as Bos taurus.<br>
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<b>Abstract</b><br>
When Roman administration and legions gradually withdrew from the
outer provinces after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, they
created a power void filled by various groups. The dynamic Migration
Period that followed is usually considered to have ended when the
Germanic Lombards allegedly left Central Europe and were replaced by
Slavs. Whether or how Slavic and Germanic tribes interacted,
however, is currently disputed. Here we report the first direct
archaeological find in support of a contact: a bone fragment dated
to ~600 AD incised with Germanic runes but found in Lány, Czechia, a
contemporaneous settlement associated with Slavs. We documented and
authenticated this artifact using a combined approach of use-wear
analysis with SEM mi-croscopy, direct radiocarbon dating, and
ancient DNA analysis of the animal bone, thereby setting a new
stan-dard for the investigation of runic bones. The find is the
first older <i>fuþark</i> inscription found in any non-Germanic
context and suggests that the presumed ancestors of modern Slavic
speakers encountered writing much earlier than previously thought.<br>
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<b>Zum Beitrag und seinen Extras:</b><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440321000030">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440321000030</a>
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