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If you want, I will publish a topic in which I will reveal all the genetic and migration origins of all the peoples who conquered the British Isles at one time.
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. . . climate change and subsequent famine had much to do with the displacement of the Britons by Anglo-Saxon invaders in the fifth century.
. . . the concept of “total history,” that history was more than politics, war or social relations. You also had to understand the natural world to understand human culture in a particular time.
. . . After the initial success of the fifth-century Anglo-Saxon invasions, there’s a political and military deadlock between the Anglo-Saxons and other peoples in Britain. Then in the mid-sixth century, something happens to allow the Anglo-Saxons to break out and run the table all the way to what will become the Scottish frontier in the north and the Welsh frontier in the west.
A year that sticks out in the ice cores and pollen records and tree ring chronologies is about 540 A.D. Something catastrophically awful happened then.
J. D. Rhanders-Pehrson, in Romans and Barbarians, does say, "Gildas' lurid accounts of death and destruction must be discounted. Archaeologists thus far have never found a fire layer either in the towns or in the outlying villas." Archaeologists also say that the invading Saxons certainly did not sweep across Britain in one wave as Gildas suggests. However, exploding meteors, unlike rampaging barbarians, would not pick out towns and villas for burning. Forests and woods might blaze, creating terror, while buildings fell to shock waves. Why was Gildas so insistent about the fire, which forms such a striking part of his text? Perhaps he preserves a memory of destruction which he assumed was caused by invaders.
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For instance the AD 540 event is found in tree-ring chronologies from Siberia through Europe and North and South America.
originally posted by: Freeborn
Its as if he just can't resist engaging in some sort of political baiting trying to wind people up to get some sort of aggressive response that transgresses site T&C's.