{"product_id":"myth-and-history-ethnicity-politics-in-the-first-millennium-british-isles","title":"Stephen Yeates: Myth and History [2012] paperback","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMyth 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.","brand":"Yeates, Stephen","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46493811343699,"sku":"9781842174784","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/yeates-stephen-stephen-yeates-myth-and-history-2012-paperback-9781842174784-1155876159.jpg?v=1744672656","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/myth-and-history-ethnicity-politics-in-the-first-millennium-british-isles","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}