LL-L "History" 2005.10.06 (03) [E]

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06 October 2005 * Volume 03
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From: heather rendall <HeatherRendall at compuserve.com>
Subject: LL-L "History" 2005.10.03 (03) [E]

>A whole tribe again.

But wasn't that the pattern?

When a group grew too big/overcrowded for its area, it selected a complete
"unit" to emigrate to pastures new. Every trade had to have one or more
representatives - every skills ditto - men and women. Once the people had
been chosen, they were equipped with every tool and resource needed and
then set off.

Sometimes they knew where they were heading for - to locate previous
emigrants and see if there was space near them. Sometimes they just took
off and wandered until they found eiethr a free location of a location
occupied by such small numbers that they could overwhelm them.

Caesar and other authors mention meeting groups who asked permission to
travel out of non-Roman Alpine areas across Roman territory to non-Roman
areas of Northern Spain.

So it wasn't necessarily the whole tribe but just a sort of little clone -
a mini bit of the tribe that would be able to function properly wherever it
landed.

Heather

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