[decimon]

Iron maiden ping.

[JimRed]

Possible explanations in Worlds in Collision and Ages in Chaos (Immanuel Velikovsky). Good reads.

[Kenny Bunk]

Dumb question department:
So how good is a bronze axe for chopping down a big tree? How did they attach a handle to those axe-heads?

Dumb Observation department:<
Good bronze polishes up beautifully and can look like gold.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Leftists took over for those three hundred years and ground all economic activity to a halt.

[blam]

The Dark Ages: Were They Darker Than We Imagined?

"Mike Baillie is Professor of Palaeoecology at Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is an authority on tree rings and their use in dating ancient events (every year, a tree adds a "ring" to its trunk as it grows - good years are represented by thick rings while bad years are represented by thin rings). He conducted a complete (and continuous) review of annual global tree growth patterns over the last 5,000 years and found that there were five major environmental shocks that were witnessed worldwide. These shocks were reflected in the ring widths being very thin. Wanting to know more, he turned to human historical records, and found that the years in question (between 2354 and 2345 BC, 1628 and 1623 BC, 1159 and 1141 BC, 208 and 204 BC, and AD 536 and 545) all corresponded with "dark ages" in civilisation."

[SunkenCiv]

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[JoeProBono]

[Grimmy]

Lemme see if this makes any sense?

Various tribes in Britain had trade relations with Eastern Mediterranean folks. Iirc, tin was one of their trade items?

But there were traders from Greece and such places going in and out.

Athens had that brutal plague in 430BC. Might the tribes of Britain gotten a dose of the same or something similar but just got it a bit earlier?

A hard plague would thin out the skilled labor along with the end users. Maybe the art died out locally, and they had to wait for some of the Celts from continental Europe to drop by once that new fangled iron thing caught on to teach em up?

[Unam Sanctam]

I blame Bush, Cheney and Halliburton.