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To: MacDorcha
Agreed. I think it's more possible it was Prussian (or Scythian) Celts who traveled to ancient China. bringing with them metal working and carts. Possibly even horseback riding.

HUH?????? Prussia didn't come into existence until the late medieval period, as a frontier state of Brandenburg. How could it have been Prussians. ANd what are Prussian CELTS???? The Prussians were Germanics. Scythians too were not Celts. Scythians is also a generic term used by the Greeks just the same as we use the term barbarian -- it meant everyone who lived to the north of the Greeks and who were non-Greeks: so it included Indo-Europeans, Turkics etc.
26 posted on 03/19/2005 8:22:31 PM PST by Cronos (Never forget 9/11)
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To: Cronos

"Prussia didn't come into existence until the late medieval period"

Think regional.

And Scythians were Indo-European CELTS. You're thinking strictly in the Brittany-Irish celts. There were even Iberian Celts (until the arabs came to Spain)

The Indo-Europeans were largely Celtic, and had the same social structure. I don't know where you got your deffinitions.


27 posted on 03/19/2005 8:56:52 PM PST by MacDorcha ("You can't reverse engineer something that was not engineered to begin with")
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