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Duncan Replies: 359 Views: 154265 |
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Since Homer describes a Bronze Age war, placed at 1200 BC or later, doesn't this absolutely rule out Troy being in Anatolia?
This information is from Wiki which also tells us: Classically, the Iron A ... |
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Duncan Replies: 359 Views: 154265 |
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Komori should read this link......... it alleges Britain as a Phoenician power base.........
It makes fascinating reading P.H. but like almost every recent thing in this thread it's pure speculation. ... |
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Duncan Replies: 359 Views: 154265 |
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There are some glaring differences between what is being offered here.
Is, as Mick Harper says, Mycenaen culture essentially the same as Classical Greek? Mycenean Greece is pretty much the same ... |
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Duncan Replies: 359 Views: 154265 |
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There was no Greek history prior to this. The Mycenaean culture was not Greek nor was there any Greek culture in Anatolia or Western Turkey until the 7th Cent BC. My own investigations conclude that t ... | |
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Duncan Replies: 359 Views: 154265 |
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The ancients made use of a group called the Drawids instead. Letters containing images rather than writing were sent through the post. | |
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Duncan Replies: 359 Views: 154265 |
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My request must have been delayed by the postal strike. Damn Reds! | |
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Duncan Replies: 359 Views: 154265 |
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Phew! A couple of weeks working away and I come back to this! The Trojan War is now fought in Britain, not in Turkey! The Beaker People are the Mycenaeans and the Celts/Welsh are the Trojans? Reality ... | |
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Duncan Replies: 359 Views: 154265 |
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So, back on the topic of the Beaker People. Dan wrote:
They say Brittany was heavily, (re)colonised from Cornwall in relatively recent times, which might mean Brittany has been to and fro as much a ... |
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Duncan Replies: 359 Views: 154265 |
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No problem, I've got the link. I'm not sure why the two sources are so different but if we follow the Benz source that you're basing your analysis on, then yes, Cornwall, most of western England, part ... | |
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Duncan Replies: 359 Views: 154265 |
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Then why not beakers throughout the West Country, Wales, Cumbria, Scotland and Ireland?
Perhaps we're singing from different hymn sheets here but Wiki shows Beaker penetration throughout the UK and ... |
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Duncan Replies: 359 Views: 154265 |
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Mick wrote:
This is what makes Beakerdom important. Is it co-eval with the introduction of agriculture and/or were the Beakers an invading horde or were they merely the folks that spread the agricult ... |
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Duncan Replies: 359 Views: 154265 |
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DP Crisp wrote:
Duncan, will you please refrain from re-citing the genetic findings when the genetic methodology is called into question? They are far from first principles. Way too premature for th ... |
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Duncan Replies: 359 Views: 154265 |
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Pulp History wrote:
It's a bit odd how peoples apparently spread rapidly then sit still for thousands of years before deciding to spread again....... It begs the question as to why people should ... |
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Duncan Replies: 359 Views: 154265 |
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Komorikid wrote:
If the Celts (and I really hate using the word as it had so many twisted connotations -- linguistically and ethnically) were a maritime trading race first and foremost their powerb ... |
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Duncan Replies: 359 Views: 154265 |
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This is one of the basic flaws in the OppSyk model. They take no account of the fact that interbreeding between the East and West was relatively small and assume a population growth at a mean level ov ... | |
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