From: Daniel J. Milton
Message: 23572
Date: 2003-06-19
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, g <george.st@...> wrote:
And - who knows? - the explosion
> of the volcano Krakatau in the 1st half of the 5th c., that
> according to a researcher caused climate changes that
> prompted the Huns, Avars et al. to move westwards and
> give the final blows to the state of the ancestors of the
> Vlakhs. :-)
> George
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For Father's Day last Sunday I got Simon Winchester's book on
Krakatoa. I haven't read it yet, but just now now looking at it, I
see that eruption dated AD 416 in the Indonesian records is thought
to be confusion for a major eruption in AD 535. If so, all the
historical consequences should be reevaluated accordingly. Without
having read the arguments, I'm strongly biased toward skepticism
anyway.
Dan