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<p>[QUOTE="Curtisimo, post: 2858782, member: 83845"]Thank you for your comment ErolGarip. I will do the best I can to clarify for you.</p><p><br /></p><p>While the site of Daorson has been occupied since at least 1600 BC the first peoples who lived there may not have been associated with the cultural group we refer to as the Illyrians (of who the Daorsi are a tribe). The origin of the Illyrians is disputed but it is possible that they may not have migrated to the coastal Balkans until the 8th to 5th century BC. This previous settlement would not have left any coins because the first coins can be dated to around around the 7th century BC in Lydia and Anatolia. The first recognizable coins of the Romans themselves didn't appear until the 3rd or 4th centuries BC. The pre-history of the site is dated from artifactssuch as pottery and other items that can either be carbon dated or associate with dates from another source.</p><p><br /></p><p>I say that the coins preserved the memory of the Daorsi because the coins provide the only concrete evidence of what the tribe actually called themselves. It also allowed scholars to associate a people with a site and then use disparate references in ancient sources and artifacts uncovered in the excavations to start building a fuller history. I think you would be surprised how many peoples names are lost to us because they didn't think to write it down which makes it almost impossible to reconstruct their history.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Curtisimo, post: 2858782, member: 83845"]Thank you for your comment ErolGarip. I will do the best I can to clarify for you. While the site of Daorson has been occupied since at least 1600 BC the first peoples who lived there may not have been associated with the cultural group we refer to as the Illyrians (of who the Daorsi are a tribe). The origin of the Illyrians is disputed but it is possible that they may not have migrated to the coastal Balkans until the 8th to 5th century BC. This previous settlement would not have left any coins because the first coins can be dated to around around the 7th century BC in Lydia and Anatolia. The first recognizable coins of the Romans themselves didn't appear until the 3rd or 4th centuries BC. The pre-history of the site is dated from artifactssuch as pottery and other items that can either be carbon dated or associate with dates from another source. I say that the coins preserved the memory of the Daorsi because the coins provide the only concrete evidence of what the tribe actually called themselves. It also allowed scholars to associate a people with a site and then use disparate references in ancient sources and artifacts uncovered in the excavations to start building a fuller history. I think you would be surprised how many peoples names are lost to us because they didn't think to write it down which makes it almost impossible to reconstruct their history.[/QUOTE]
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