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baza

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Re: Another naive question

Jul 26, 2005, 17:25

>Is there any proof that magalithic man was particualrly open to foreigners, or that there was mass migration at the time?

Not much.

Genetic analysis of Ireland's smallest mammal, the pygmy shrew, suggests it was introduced from the Pyrennees by man in the Mesolithic.
I'm not aware of any proof of openness or migration during the neolithic, apart from similarities in style of some megalithic structures with those of the Iberian peninsular, Brittany and spreading right across Europe and beyond.
Come the Bronze Age, it's assumed that Cornwall was the major supplier of tin to Western Europe and Phoenicia, simply because very little tin can be found anywhere else in this part of the world.
The Amesbury Archer, who lived in the Early Bronze Age and whose grave was recently discovered 3 miles from Stonehenge, was a settler from the Alps.
So, there probably was much trade and comings-and-goings in prehistoric times, we just don't have much hard evidence.

Baz

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