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Re: Natural or Induced? Pickering to Wheeldale

Aug 27, 2012, 17:57

Sanctuary wrote:

thesweetcheat wrote:

Up to a point. I think the idea of mass-migration has been largely discounted and that current thinking is that the evidence points to smaller scale movement of people, goods and ideas. Same with the "Celts".

Well any form of migration in time builds up into a mass in quantity if it is a constant flow. Beaker pottery has been found pretty well most places in southern parts indicating a large influx over a period of time.

Plentiful Beaker pottery doesn't necessary mean thousands of migrant people though, does it? It only takes a few people to bring the ideas of the type of pottery and the method of cremation, which can then be adopted by the "indigenous" people. I'm not suggesting there was no movement of people, but I don't think there's any evidence to show that the existing pre-Beaker population of the south of England was replaced by an incoming "race".

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