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L O W L A N D S - L  -  18 September 2007 - Volume 03
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From: Pat Reynolds <pat at caerlas.demon.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L "History" 2007.09.22 (01) [E]

In message
<57c981290709221236h66d2ad10lbf2ea496f60e4441 at mail.gmail.com>,
Lowlands-L List <lowlands.list at GMAIL.COM> (i.e. Ron) writes of people
moving into
> largely vacated regions

I haven't been closely following this, so this example may be one of the
exceptions which proves a rule, but ...

'Vacated regions' are quite rare things.  If you have a region with
folks at a given density in it, a decrease in that density is usually a
result of plague, or similar catastrophy, not migration.

When folks do migrate out of regions, new folks coming in will often
have the choice between going there, or to wherever the folks who left
have gone, so what makes them come here, rather than there?  Often it is
as a result of their bringing in new technology,  which allow a
different, more effective, exploitation of the resources of the region.
Other reasons do exist - for example, if 'respectable people' attend the
tombs of their parents at least once a year, then the 'vacated region'
may be significantly more attractive if it is within reasonable journey
time of the ancestral region, and the region(s) to which the original
population migrated is significantly further away.

'Empty lands', I think, often equate to 'lands unobservable by
archaeologists', rather than lands without people.

Cheers,

Pat
--
Pat Reynolds

It may look messy now ...
        ... but just you come back in 500 years time (T. Pratchett).

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