{"id":145,"date":"2004-03-18T16:23:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-18T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=145"},"modified":"2004-03-18T16:23:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-18T16:23:00","slug":"145","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=145","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

A kinder, gentler Anglo-Saxon invasion?<\/strong><\/p>\n

New tools of DNA analysis are causing British archaeologists to rethink the idea of the Anglo-Saxon invasions that followed the collapse of Roman rule. Anyone who has imersed themselves in the Arthurian period tends to think of Anglo-Saxon versus British conflict as something resembling “ethnic cleansing.” I remember as a kid reading Walter O’Meara’s The Duke of War<\/em>, one fictional treatment of Arthur, the “decisive battle” of Mount Badon, Romanized mostly Christian British versus heathen Saxons, etc.<\/p>\n

New studies of teeth in cemetaries of the period, however, are showing fewer persons than expected who were born outside Britain, as the BBC reports here<\/a>. Was the change, the language shift, more cultural than violent? It’s still an open–and interesting–question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A kinder, gentler Anglo-Saxon invasion? New tools of DNA analysis are causing British archaeologists to rethink the idea of the Anglo-Saxon invasions that followed the collapse of Roman rule. Anyone who has imersed themselves in the Arthurian period tends to think of Anglo-Saxon versus British conflict as something resembling “ethnic cleansing.” I remember as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-145","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12617,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12617","url_meta":{"origin":145,"position":0},"title":"“W\u00e6lcyrge or Witchcraft: Identifying Heathendom in late Anglo-Danish England”","author":"Chas S. 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