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**dubballey** · 06-25-2012, 01:01 AM

There didn't seem to be any threads about Celts. We should put that right!

Who were the Celts and where did they come from?

I propose that:

Proto-Celts were the people who brought R1b, agriculture and Indo-European language to Western Europe, arriving roughly 4000-3000BC.
They were the bell beaker people, and the people of the 'atlantic bronze age'. The people who built stone circles. They form the bulk of the Iberian, French and British isles populations today as well as some of the more easterly people of the low countries, Northern Italy and Western Germany. This therefore means they form the bulk of the North American population.

I think the central European homeland of the celts has been proven incorrect both by genetic and other research, as has the theory of some sort of iron age celtic invasion of Britain. I don't see that there is much link between the La Tene and Halstatt cultures and these atlantic people.
Clearly celtic languages have not survived in many areas, but although Germanic and Romance languages have taken their place the people are mostly as 'celtic' as they ever were.

What do you think of these ideas? Everything seems to add up fairly well in light of the ancient R1b samples discovered a few months ago, don't you think?

06-25-2012, 01:01 AM	#1
dubballey Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 441 Senior Member	Celts There didn't seem to be any threads about Celts. We should put that right! Who were the Celts and where did they come from? I propose that: Proto-Celts were the people who brought R1b, agriculture and Indo-European language to Western Europe, arriving roughly 4000-3000BC. They were the bell beaker people, and the people of the 'atlantic bronze age'. The people who built stone circles. They form the bulk of the Iberian, French and British isles populations today as well as some of the more easterly people of the low countries, Northern Italy and Western Germany. This therefore means they form the bulk of the North American population. I think the central European homeland of the celts has been proven incorrect both by genetic and other research, as has the theory of some sort of iron age celtic invasion of Britain. I don't see that there is much link between the La Tene and Halstatt cultures and these atlantic people. Clearly celtic languages have not survived in many areas, but although Germanic and Romance languages have taken their place the people are mostly as 'celtic' as they ever were. What do you think of these ideas? Everything seems to add up fairly well in light of the ancient R1b samples discovered a few months ago, don't you think?
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