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To: SunkenCiv

Weren’t the predecessors of the Celts called the ‘Beaker People’, due to some of their pottery?


13 posted on 06/17/2010 5:09:10 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of.-- Idylls of the King)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

I think that was due to their having been big fans of the Muppet Show.

/rimshot

The Book of Invasions, which is an Irish medieval compilation of older sources and oral traditions, gives out (I think) four successive invasions, without an exact chronology. It used to be considered quaint, but things like ag practices, weapons styles, and burial practices turned up in the correct order when archaeology started in Britain. :’)


16 posted on 06/17/2010 6:24:32 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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