[SatinDoll]

Good post. Only the Germans are really, really simplifying things.

“Celtic art and Celtic culture have their origins in south-western Germany, eastern France and Switzerland and spread from there to other parts of Europe,” said Dr Krausse.”

The Celts were displaced 7,500 years ago when the isthmus between Europe and Asia was breached by the Mediterranean Sea.

The Old Euxine Lake flooded, causing a panicked and massive migration of people fleeing in all directions. The Old Euxine Lake became what the ancients called the New Euxine Sea, what we today refer to as the Black Sea.

Populations with Celtic DNA would later be found in what is today southwestern Turkey. The mummified remains of red-haired people in the central Asian deserts are probably Celtic in origin, if the Chinese would ever allow them to be tested. Eastern Europe is known for redheads, and the Po Valley of northern Italy was considered Celtic by the ancient Romans.

[yarddog]

I read a couple of years ago that testing has shown the average Englshman still has strong Celtic ties.

Apparently those Roman, Saxon etc. invaders did not come close to displacing the original inhabitants.

I always thought it interesting that Ramses the Great had red wavy hair. Also the King David is traditionally said to have been red headed.

[muawiyah]

Lots of red/yellow pigment began popping up all over Western Europe during and after the 30 Years War.

Then there was the total replacement of the Polish nobility by men from much further West.

The Celts themselves left records behind regarding their movement from the Danube and Black Sea regions to the Mediterranean and Spain.

[muawiyah]

The Boii are recorded to have settled in the Po Valley after an historic Roman event ~ when the noise made by the geese roused them to get up and protect themselves from the invading Celts. They drove them all the way back to Boulogne.

Different Celts though.

The group that came down the Danube and into the Black Sea on their way to about 300 years of life in/around/on the Mediterranean is the one that left behind this grave ~ albeit at a slightly later date than I would have imagined. They had already reorganized Northern Spain by that time and were well on their way to invading Ireland and Britain (taking with them native Basques).

[Sherman Logan]

Populations with Celtic DNA would later be found in what is today southwestern Turkey.

This is well known and attested historically. The Celts (Gauls) invaded Asia Minor around 270 BC, eventually settling in what became known as Galatia.

[antceecee]

Bookmark. This is going to be an interesting thread.