The Slavs “spread into the power vacuum created by Przeworsk culture collapse in the late fifth or the earlier 6th century”. 7 Similarly, the Slavic migration is traceable by means of a “‘thin’ ribbon of Korchak sites”. To him, there can be no doubt that the Wielbark people morphed into the Sântana de Mureş- Černjachov people, who became Goths in the course of a century-long migration across Eastern Europe, from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Peter Heather, however, is skeptical about skepticism. 5 One could argue in principle that the Sântana de Mureş-Černjachov culture came into being “because of a migration out of the Wielbark regions, but one might equally argue that it was an indigenous development of local Pontic, Carpic, and Dacian cultures”. 4 The idea that the Goths migrated out of northern Europe to the fringes of the Empire rests “mainly on the evidence of a single ancient source, the Getica of Jordanes, around which complicated structures of scholarly hypothesis have been built”. 3 Instead, one can envision communication lines along the principal trade routes. 2 According to Guy Halsall, the archaeological record pertaining to East Central Europe in the 3rd century does “not support the idea of a substantial migration”. Walter Goffart sees no reason for Germanic tribes residing in the vastness of Ukraine to emigrate: “if really land hungry, they might have satisfied their needs right where they were”. They doubt that migration could explain even changes taking place in the region. 1 Historians studying Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages disagree.
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Historians of the modern era have recently turned Eastern Europe into a vagina nationum: the greatest mass migration and even the “making of the free world” are directly related to Eastern Europe. There is yet no sign of the theoretical impact of the recent resurgence of scholarly interest in migration, which has been inspired by concerns with connectivity, colonial studies, postcolonial perspectives, and entangled situations. Migration is used as an explanatory device, and is itself rarely the subject of archaeological investigation. Migrations are described in rich conceptual terms, but models of historical migrations do not really fit the archaeological evidence. The relation between written and archaeological sources is the most problematic aspect of the research in the area. Most scholars, however, ignore the existence of a relatively large body of literature written in East Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe on migrations. Some deny, while others affirm the existence of migrations in or from the region. The current debate surrounding the role of migrations in the late antique and early medieval history of the Europe has written out the eastern part of the Continent.
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