08-01-2008, 02:34 PM
Quote:Arguments that British Celts are not really Celts because they differ genetically from the people of the Rhineland who originated the Halstatt and La Tene art styles is equally intellectually untenable.
Well said. Your summation is nicely succinct and accurate.
DNA migration evidence, while interesting, is unfortunately often confused with cultural, linguistic, and mass population migration.
There is a person on our Celtic festival Board of Directors that keeps wanting to link the Celts and the Jews because DNA markers supposedly indicate a migration from the Middle East.
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