TITLE:
Ancestors of Poles in the Battle of the Tollense Valley, Known as the “Pomeranian Troy”
AUTHORS:
Tomasz J. Kosinski
KEYWORDS:
The Battle in the Tollense Valley, Pomeranian Troy, Ancestors of Poles, Lusatian Culture, Bronze Age
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Anthropology,
Vol.13 No.1,
February
28,
2023
ABSTRACT: Much has been written about
the battle from 3300 years ago in the Tollense Valley, known as the “Pomeranian
Troy”, which, according to historians, could not have taken place. The problem
is that every year, instead of new information with research results, we get
materials and opinions that contradict those given earlier. Somewhere suddenly
disappeared Poles and Scandinavians, who were mentioned in the first reports
about the work on this find, have suddenly disappeared. Unfortunately, it looks
like a deliberate manipulation of facts and propaganda acrobatics with
ethnonyms (suddenly Germans appeared there, who had not been mentioned before),
playing for time and providing research reports in accordance with the
historical policy pursued by Germany. One should ask: Why are Polish and many
other foreign archaeologists not interested in such a sensational find? On
several historical discussion groups, people claiming to be archaeologists, as
it turned out, had not even heard about this discovery in 2017 and asked for
links to an article in “Science”, because they thought it was “a hoax”. Is it
an expression of ignorance of our scholars or is it just a game in the
repetition of old paradigms created for the sake of the philogermanic version
of history? Therefore, it is worth reviewing the state of research on this
discovery and considering possible theses about the origins of the participants
in this ancient battle, as well as its significance at that time, which I will
briefly discuss in this article. I also present the thesis on the expansion of
the Veneti to the Baltic Sea, as well as the report from my visit to Schwerin
in 2016 and the meeting with Dr. Detlef Jantzen, responsible for the
Tollensetal archaeological site.