Tracii şi dacii erau nişte „baltoizi”?
Were Thracians and Dacians ‘Baltoidic’?

Summary/Abstract: The authors discusses the theory of Harvey E. Mayer, published in the journal Lituanus. Mayer’s hypothesis is built upon the presumptuous assertion that Thracians and Dacians were ‘Baltoidic’ ethnic groups, some southern migrations to the south, having as a result a kind of deformed Balts, or how we can else define ‘Baltoidic’. Such an abrupt definition and interpretation of Thracian and/or Dacian cannot be accepted. Nevertheless, Mayer’s approach resumes, in fact, older analyses of the Thracian and Baltic relations, once also approached by M. M. Rădulescu, whose studies are now forgotten and unknown to Mayer as well (even if written in English). There are also interesting, and little known, similarities between some substratum elements of Romanian and Baltic, mainly Lithuanian, forms. The complex problems implied in such analyses open, in fact, the gates to large-scale investigations referring to the Thracian, Baltic and Slavic relations, as underlined in other recent works, and which may be resumed from the Baltic perspective, but also from the perspective of the substratum elements of Romanian as some of them prove striking similarities with Baltic, not with Slavic.

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