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Old 05-December-2008, 10:35 PM
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Originally Posted by timb View Post
I think there's a misconception that travel and migration are recent inventions, and that if you went back more than a few hundred years you'd find "pure races" isolated in their homelands.
I would think that to be a relatively rare misconception. It's my impression that it's generally known that ancient peoples migrated, and quite frequently.

In the context of the history lesson I recently received from Mr Carlin, which provoked some of this discussion of the steppe peoples, that was a key feature to his talk. They moved and they moved a lot.
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