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"The expansion of the Bell Beaker culture (named after their pots) appears to have been a key event, emerging in Iberia around 2800 BC and arriving in Germany several centuries later," says Dr Brotherton. "This is a very interesting group as they have been linked to the expansion of Celtic languages along the Atlantic coast and into central Europe."
3 posted on 04/23/2013 5:52:33 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: BenLurkin

That is very interesting indeed, as I think the conventional story is that the Celts expanded from central Europe. Not out of Iberia.


4 posted on 04/23/2013 5:59:17 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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The Beaker people showed up about 10 miles south of Leicester in central England, around 2000 B.C. A burial mound was found a stones throw from Smeeton-Westerby in the ‘70’s.


22 posted on 04/23/2013 7:58:49 PM PDT by muleskinner
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