It seems the Huns may not have been the cut-throat barbarians who had an 'infinite thirst for gold', as suggested by some classical historians.
, as suggested by some classical historians.
Indeed, the teeth of ancient human remains found on the Great Hungarian steppes suggest the Huns experienced several changes of diets within their lifetimes. They seem to have quickly adapted to whatever food sources were most available. And this, in turn, might have triggered a shift in societal roles.
But while Attila is often framed as a greedy leader, hell-bent on sucking the Roman empire dry, it's important to note that his attacks on the eastern frontier occurred during a time of increasing aridity in the Carpathian Basin. "If the dating of these events is reliable, then the most devastating Hunnic incursions, in 447, 451, and 452 CE, happened during extremely dry summers," researchers from Cambridge"This raises the question of whether altered environmental affordances provoked adaptations to subsistence, economy, and perhaps even social organization."
Rather than attacking Roman provinces primarily for gold, researchers suspect Attila's raids were made to acquire food and livestock during times of drought. While the study agrees that some of these ancient people did change their social and political organization to focus on at times violent raiding, the new findings reveal this was likely instigated as a matter of survival for them.
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