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Germany was populated in antiquity?
by brcmthrowaway 6mo ago
Germany was populated in antiquity?
- QuercusMax 6mo agoIs this a joke?
- lukan 6mo agoProbably just ignorance, but there actually was a gap in that time in some areas in germany. Close to my hometown are the remains of an old ancient fortress - that was build by mostly unknown people and abandoned at 400 b.c. and only 1000 years later there were settlements again. A bit rougher area, though. The flat area of Berlin on the other hand, had human settlement since 60 000 years.
- QuercusMax 6mo agoI don't think anyone requires every hectare to have been developed in order to consider an area inhabited. Neanderthals are named after the Neander valley (Thal) near Dusseldorf, so I think we can definitely say yes, that humans have lived in Germany since long before antiquity.
- lukan 6mo ago"that humans have lived in Germany since long before antiquity." Yes, but there were definitely whole areas not habited for quite some time .. likely reason, climate change! (It got colder at that time)
- tremon 6mo agoGermany was only populated in olden times. The present name for (most of) the region is Deutschland.
- traderj0e 6mo agoRomans referred to the region where they came into contact with villages across the Rhine as "Germania."