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Quote from: Andreas Johansson on December 25, 2024, 08:51:45 PMI tend to think of "Dark Ages" as a subset of "Early Medieval", ending around AD 800,

(The late end of) Late Antiquity, then 

Or a bit of it, anyway ...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ramses-II-long-lost-sarcophagus-finally-been-identified-180984441/

https://www.popsci.com/science/bubonic-plague-mummy/

Ick....

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Hopefully of interest...?

I tend to think of "Dark Ages" as a subset of "Early Medieval", ending around AD 800, while Early Medieval lasts into the eleventh century.

Which I guess is one reason to avoid it - it means different things to different people. But it also means I don't have an obvious alternative designation.

I'll quibble with the claim that the term is "eurocentric". Yes, it's primarily applicable to (western) Europe, and makes little sense applied to other regions. But no-one would say that a label like "Late Postclassic" is mexicocentric because it makes little sense applied to China or India. If there's eurocentrism, it's in applying European periods where they don't make sense, not in the period labels themselves.

Not far from the farm where I was brought up in Sutton Mandeville. There are two hillforts nearby at Chiselbury Ring and Castle Ditches.

No problemo...

I will send it in before New Years Eve.

Jaws has alot to answer for