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5 unusual facts about Peter Heather


Chernyakhov culture

Whilst acknowledging the mixed origins of the Chernyakiv culture, Peter Heather suggests that the culture is ultimately a reflection of the Goths' domination of the Pontic area.

Greuthungi

Many modern historians, including Peter Heather and Michael Kulikowski, doubt that it was ever particularly extensive (and suggest one or more smaller kingdoms).

Hunnic language

A number of historians and linguists including Peter Heather and Karl Heinrich Menges feel that the evidence only allows the Hunnic language to be positioned in the broad group of Altaic languages.

Migration Period

Peter Heather suggests that constructionism and modernism represent two extremes of the spectrum of possibilities.

Upper Trajan's Wall

Others, such as the historian Peter Heather, affirm it was built by the local Germanic tribes, mainly as a defense against raiders from Central Asia (Attila's Huns).



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