Why can't I study Tribal Europe at school/uni?

Question

I like studying all the different european tribes

the quadi/marcomani Suebi / Hasdin/ siling vandals/ scythians / slavs / Rus / Celts / Suiones[swedes] / Caledones / Taexali / britons / goths / Alans / picts and the endless germanic tribes.

I find them alot more interesting than the great civilisations.

But at university you can only study Egypt/Greece and Rome who battled with them.Are'nt these groups a massive part of our past and genes too?

Answer 1

I don't know what it's like Down Under, but here in the US, there's been a wholesale dumping of Germanic Studies depts.  since WWII.  It's getting harder and harder to find.

Oxford has a VERY healthy program, in England . . . Hilda R. Ellis Davidson, now deceased, was a professor there.  I believe Jesse Byock and Kathleen Herbert and possibly Ursula Dronke are associated with Oxford as well.

You might also contact the Rune Gild . . . Edred Thorsson, its founder, is *also* Dr. Stephen Flowers, Germanicist extraordinaire.  He has another project promoting the revitalization of Germanic studies and may be able to point you in the right direction.

And . . . just because we built in wood rather than stone doesn't mean we weren't great civilizations!!!

Answer 2

This is left for the adventurer spirit to seek what has not been provided, and apparently your text books are like many other European texts, which is lacking the truth. You either decide to get an opinion on a finished work of yours on these subjects and then decide to publish an educated version, or you devote your career to finding this information and then providing it to others that would benefit or would need to refer to it. If it is not thorough, it will be as many of the incomplete works of before, but if it is what we can expect it to be, a straight line can be made to connect all nine dots:

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Answer 3

But you can. I'm not sure where you go to university, but these tribes are not the subject of study of classical archaeology, but of early medieval,  in Germany even of Prehistoric archaeology (as the German tribes east of Rhine simply skipped the classical period).

If you don't live in Europe, it's logical why there aren't in-depth courses at your university - sometimes the study area is called "national archaeology", as the tribes being studied are often the oldest ethnic strata of future European states.

But you can do independent study. Try doing research and contacting people at universities to see if they can be of any help.

Answer 4

You could do some independent study.