Where Did the Celts Really Come From? [48:22]

YouTube ^ | March 20, 2025 | Our History

[SunkenCiv]

Ah, here it is!

For the great Gaels of Ireland
Are the men that God made mad,
For all their wars are merry,
And all their songs are sad.
–G.K. Chesterton

[SunkenCiv]

What did you eggs benedict me to do?

https://www.streetdirectory.com/lyricadvisor/song/fcflcw/breakfast_blues/

[SunkenCiv]

[snip] The Tarim Basin mummies, found in Ürümchi, China, are known for their well-preserved clothing, including fragments of tartan-style cloth. Elizabeth Wayland Barber, an expert in ancient textiles, discusses these tartans in her book “The Mummies of Ürümchi”.

The mummies, dating back as far as 4,000 years, have Caucasian features and were buried with brightly colored clothes, some of which were twill tartans.

These fragments are considered the oldest tartans ever discovered, showing an Indo-European origin similar to Neolithic clothing found in Europe.

The discovery of these tartans provides insights into the cultural and textile connections between ancient populations in Europe and Asia. [/snip]

https://search.brave.com/search?q=urumchi+mummies+tartans&summary=1

[SunkenCiv]

The Greeks drank it that way because it more or less sanitized the water. The Greek national drink is Retsina, wine with pine resin. The Mycenaeans also enjoyed his (based on archaeological remains), as well as a mixture of beer, wine, and mead. A friend of mine tested it, found the ratio was 3:2:1 or 4:2:1, this was just with wine I believe, rather than retsina.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks! The distinct shift during the Bronze Age was the arrival of the Celts. It’s not surprising that some of the earlier people’s genome has survived thanks to intermarriage.

https://search.brave.com/search?q=Ballynahatty+Neolithic+woman&summary=1

[Cronos]

we need to distinguish between the Celtic "people" and the Celtic "language speakers"

Many of the common people in the UK were actually the hunter-gatherers who were dark skinned, meat eating, light-eyed. Then, as they moved to agriculture with the addition of Iranian neolithic farmers, they lost the Vitamin D from the animal diet and the lighter skinned (low melanin) survived

So most of these people were "Stonehenge builders", then "Celts", then "Anglo-Saxons", then "English"

Genetic studies suggest Celtic populations arose from a mix of indigenous European hunter-gatherers, Neolithic farmers, and Indo-European pastoralists from the Pontic-Caspian steppe (Yamnaya culture, c. 3000 BCE). The spread of Celtic culture likely involved both population movements and language diffusion.

Bohemia is derived from a name of a Celtic tribe - these people spread outwards towards France, Spain, the British isles, then also to Turkey and Italy devastating Rome in the 4th century BC, and Anatolia shortly afterwards (the origin of the Galatians)

But genetically they are this mix of hunter-gathers, Iranian neolithic farmers and an overlayer of Indo-European steppe warriors

[Cronos]

[Telepathic Intruder]

The Germans definitely drank it for the antibacterial properties. Better to be a little drunk all the time than dead from living downriver of everyone pissing in the stream. It’s an historical fact.

[dfwgator]

Or Glasgow.

[Salamander]

Bizarre thing is I’m really more of a classic rock gal but any of the pipes have always stirred something in my blood.

Atavism, maybe?

🤷‍♀️

[Salamander]

It’s true.

😆

[Salamander]

Yup.

That was gonna be my next soapbox hop.

😁

It was PLAIDS, people, PLAIDS!

[Salamander]

We’re all descended from James Brown?

( I feel good!)

[Salamander]

Smile when you say Glasgow.

/she’s so weird

[Salamander]

Now let’s talk about the Basques and the Welsh.

😜

[BlueLancer]

Now let’s talk about the Basques and the Welsh.

[ckilmer]

I wasn’t criticizing.

I was rather deadpanning to cover up my confusion.

I actually have some of my ancestors from the Haalstadt neck of the woods. So there might be some celtic blood in us.Otherwise there is nothing celtic about my family. So No one in my family would know if that was a complaint or a boast. It would be just a little strange—if true.

If true it would be in tiny quantities.

I like your posts.

[Salamander]

No Irish and no dogs allowed.

Someday I’d like to get a repro of that sign and hang it on my door.

( that’s all that’ll be in there if get back home. dark humor)

[SunkenCiv]

I knew that, but my joke reply may have been less successful. :^)

[central_va]

Boston?