11-17-2009, 05:25 PM
Quote:"So, assuming that the "Celtic" culture apparently derived from the northern Alpine region (Hallstattkultur) I wonder how it came that the Hallstatt people conquered all of Western Europe... populated it anew... were driven out again... stayed only in certain places of far Western Europe... "
doesn't look that way I'm afraid, two very different "Celtic" groups seems to be the post 1920's news.....
“ The 'Celts' of Ireland and the Western Isles are not, as far as I can see from the genetic evidence, related to the Celts who spread south and east to Italy, Greece and Turkey from the heartlands of Hallstadt and La Tene...during the first millennium BC...The genetic evidence shows that a large proportion of Irish Celts, on both the male and female side, did arrive from Iberia at or about the same time as farming reached the Isles." - (Blood of the Isles -Brain Sykes 2006)
No, it looks like you misunderstood what I wrote...
Christian K.
No reconstruendum => No reconstruction.
Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas.
No reconstruendum => No reconstruction.
Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas.
