Posted on 01/08/2009 7:59:41 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists have uncovered a 3rd to 2nd century BC Celtic village four miles east of Krakow in Poland, where excavated artifacts may help to reconstruct the life and fate of the Celts. According to a report in the Krakow Post, archaeologists from the Krakow Highway Exploration Team had been exploring the area during preparatory archaeological works done on the future A4 highway premises, when they came across the finding. They found treasured coins, jewellery and everyday articles, thanks to which they will be able to reconstruct the life and fate of the Celts in the Malopolska district and make valuable scientific discoveries... The Celts were originally a Germanic people, living in the area of today's southern Germany, France, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Austria, and they were well known for their technical achievements, especially processing metal and pottery. In 280-277 BC, they invaded the northern part of the Balkan Peninsula, but had to pull out north. According to the archaeologists' theory some of them went through the Moravian lands (now part of the Czech Republic) to Malopolska in the 3rd century BC, before any Slavic tribe got here. Malopolska was at that time a largely depopulated area and the Celts could settle there and keep their customs and culture. The Celts migrated out of the Krakow area probably around the 2nd to the 1st century BC, likely joining a great Germanic migration that took place at that time. They left behind pieces of bracelets and glass beads imported from other Celtic tribes living in the south, as well as iron tools, among which was one of the oldest pair of scissors.
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You can sometimes get a feeble echo of what Celts were like by observing an Irish fair. Or peoples even further back.
That explains my great, great, great grand uncle Patty O’Kaminski.
and mine patty o’chair
Seriously, there are people locally here who just have an ‘O’ in front of my very non-celtic last name. People always asked if we were related.
That’s my family’s region of origin in the story. What an odd thing.
I thought Celts came from Vikings?
The Celts are Indo-European, as are the Germans, French, Italians, Spanish, Greeks, Russians... but the Celts aren’t German, French, Russian, or Viking. :’)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1492262/posts?page=7#7
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/694010/posts?page=33#33
What are you doing here?”: man asks wife at brothel
reuters.com | Wed Jan 9, 2008 | Chris Borowski
Posted on 01/05/2009 10:58:02 AM PST by shielagolden
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2159097/posts
Don’t tell me they didn’t have occasion to ‘visit’.
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The Celts were not a Germanic People. They were a Celtic People.
Interesting that the most western linguistic groups - Italic and Celtic - form a cluster related to the most Eastern group (Tocharian).
One of the reasonable speculations about Proto-Indo-European is that, based on a lack of a common root word for large bodies of water (the ones used were either loanwords or made up when needed), the PIE speakers came from a place that didn’t have them, such as Central Asia (which is the most likely origin). :’)
Interesting stuff.
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