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**PypeDeft** · 06-25-2012, 02:49 AM

This whole thing of Celts coming from Central Europe is based on Herodotus saying that they were from the source of the Danube.

But he thought that it was near the Franco-Spanish border.

What link is there between Halstatt/La Tene and Celts in Western France, Iberia or Britain?

The more traditional frameworks from the last century proclaimed Halstatt culture as Proto-Celtic. The material culture associated with Iron Age Marnia (N. France) which had apparent Halstatt/La Tene links was supposed to have arrived in Britain sometime soon after. Collis is hyper critical of this and refers to the time when British schools referred to the coming of the "Celts" to Britain as the "Marnian invasion' scenario.

Cunliffe also talks much about the Halstatt culture's role of being Proto-Celtic.

06-25-2012, 02:49 AM	#14
PypeDeft Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 411 Senior Member	This whole thing of Celts coming from Central Europe is based on Herodotus saying that they were from the source of the Danube. But he thought that it was near the Franco-Spanish border. What link is there between Halstatt/La Tene and Celts in Western France, Iberia or Britain? The more traditional frameworks from the last century proclaimed Halstatt culture as Proto-Celtic. The material culture associated with Iron Age Marnia (N. France) which had apparent Halstatt/La Tene links was supposed to have arrived in Britain sometime soon after. Collis is hyper critical of this and refers to the time when British schools referred to the coming of the "Celts" to Britain as the "Marnian invasion' scenario. Cunliffe also talks much about the Halstatt culture's role of being Proto-Celtic.
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