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Myth and History - Ethnicity & Politics in the First Millennium British Isles (Paperback)
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Our recent understanding of British history has been slowly
unravelling thanks to new techniques such as DNA analysis, new
archaeological data and reassessment of the literary evidence.
There are considerable problems in understanding the early history
of Britain; sources for the centuries from the first Roman invasion
to 1000 AD are few and contradictory, the archaeological record
complex and there is little collaboration or agreement between
archaeologists, Roman and Anglo-Saxon historians. A common
assumption concerning the development of the English language and,
therefore British history, is that there was an invasion from
northern Europe in the fifth century, the so-called Anglo-Saxon
migration; a model based on the writings of Bede. However the Bedan
model has become increasingly unsustainable and is on the verge of
collapse. Myth and History offers a comprehensive re-assessment of
the present scientific, historical, archaeological and language
evidence, debunking the model of British history based on Bede, and
showing how Roman texts can be used in conjunction with the other
evidence to build an alternative picture. Stephen Yeates
demonstrates that the evidence that has been used to construct the
story of an Anglo-Saxon migration, with an incoming population
replacing most, if not all, of the British population has been
found wanting, that initial attempts to interpret literally the DNA
evidence based on historical sources are problematic, and that the
best DNA analysis of the British Isles fits the evidence into a
broader European view which attempts to plot the movement of people
across the Continent and which sees the major migration periods in
Europe as occurring in the Mesolithic and the Neolithic. This DNA
analysis is constant with the latest assessments based on language
development, contemporary historical reports from the Roman period,
and the analysis of archaeological data from the Iron Age and Roman
period. He also argues that the Roman texts can be used to identify
where the Late Roman provinces of Britain actually lay and this
leads to important conclusions about the ethnicity and origins of
the early British peoples. This book is a timely attempt to unravel
myth from history, present a cogent platform for Anglo-Saxon
studies and understand who the British people really are.
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