THE CELTS.wmv

The culture of northern Germany and the Netherlands represents an origin for the Celts as a distinct cultural branch of the Indo-European family. This culture was preeminent in central Europe during the late Bronze Age, from ca. 1200 BC until 700 BC, itself following the Unetice and Tumulus cultures. The Urnfield period saw a dramatic increase in population in the region, probably due to innovations in technology and agricultural practices. Some believed that the Celts came from the islands off the mouth of the Rhine who were "driven from their homes by the frequency of wars and the violent rising of the sea".

The spread of iron-working led to the development of the Hallstatt culture directly from the Urnfield (ca. 700 to 500 BC). Proto-Celtic, the latest common ancestor of all known Celtic languages, is considered by this school of thought to have been spoken at the time of the late Urnfield or early Hallstatt cultures, in the early 1st millennium BC. The spread of the Celtic languages to Iberia, Ireland and Britain would have occurred during the first half of the 1st millennium BC, the earliest chariot burials in Britain dating to ca. 500 BC. Over the centuries they developed into the separate Celtiberian, Goidelic and Brythonic languages.

The Hallstatt culture was succeeded by the La Tène culture of central Europe, and during the final stages of the Iron Age gradually transformed into the explicitly Celtic culture of early historical times. Celtic river-names are found in great numbers around the upper reaches of the Danube and Rhine, which led many Celtic scholars to place the ethnogenesis of the Celts in this area.

Diodorus Siculus and Strabo both suggest that the Celtic heartland was in southern Austria. The former says that the Gauls were to the north of the Celts but that the Romans referred to both as Gauls. Before the discoveries at Hallstatt and La Tene, it was generally considered that the Celtic heartland was Germany. Almagro Gorbea proposed the origins of the Celts could be traced back to the 3rd millennium BC, seeking the initial roots in the Bell Beaker culture, thus offering the wide dispersion of the Celts throughout western Europe, as well as the variability of the different Celtic peoples, and the existence of ancestral traditions an ancient perspective.

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[etornel79]

@varicodin

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[varicodin]

@etornel79 Your so right. All Europeans, except those of the Mediterranean came from the Asian steps. Essentially, it can be said that Europeans are distant relatives of the mongols. The steps people constantly moved west into Europe in different waves. Celts, Germans, Sloves, Scythians and Huns are the most famous of these groups, but there where many more. The Greeks wrote about a people north of the black sea that had tan skin, blond hair, and slanted eyes. 

[etornel79]

I DONT SEE ARYANS IN GERMANY... I SEE NORDIC PEOPLE WHO ARE MIXED WITH ROMAN AND INUITS ( ESKIMO ).... THERE IS NO PURE BLOOD. JUST LIGHT SKIN AND DARKER SKIN................... WOMEN ARE BEAUTIFUL ANY WHERE U GO................ ASIANS...EUROPEAN.....NATIVE..­..AFRICAN..... ESPECIALLY MIXED WOMEN.............. FURTHER MORE...JEWS HAVE BLONDE HAIR AND BLUE EYES.... THEY FALL UNDER THE CATEGORY OF ARYANS TOO....... NO MATTER THE COLOR OR RELIGION.... PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE.......... UR BROTHERS......

[segano1]

Scots = Caledonian Picts, proved by OGAP4 code.

[onogurlar]

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[IdelUralState]

Steini224 is right