celts

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Caesar himself wrote: The Celts do have writing: They use written Greek for both public and private transactions.

The Celts didn't keep written records of their practices, and Roman records are often interpreted as propaganda.

But the origins of the Celts are also suspected to be of mainland European descent as well.

Were not the Celts very equal, and it was the Romans who put an end to that?

None of which sounded like something my celtic ancesters eat celts consumed plenty of dairy.

After the Celts the Saxons, Jutes, Angles, Danes, Romans and Normans were all additions to the melting pot.

Stinging nettle is known to have been eaten by the celts.

Well, presumably the Celts did come across in small boats?

The Romans had dozens of Gods as did the Greeks, not to mention the Gods of the Sumerians, the Phoenicians and the Celts among others too numerous to mention.

When no definite borders can be traced, the map still offers names of dominant cultures in the region, in the same way whether they're, say, european Celts or south american Paracas.

I think you'll find that the majority of the British isles, including some of what is now Scotland, was populated by one of two peoples - pre Celts (Picts traditionally being named as one of those peoples) and P-Celtic speakers.

They aren't "aborigines," and certainly not culturally distinct and exemplary of some multi-millenial cultural continuity distinct from the Germans or Celts or Italians or Greeks or Albanians or Iranian or Indo-Aryans...etc.

As an interesting side note to show just how big of a hack mixed up jumble of everything modern english is, the usage of the verb do, in elliptical sentences and questions such as "do you want some coffee?", is very rare in indo-european languages (only found in celtic langs such as irish) and thought to have been picked up during the time in which saxon speakers and celts were sharing the same island.

The only groups who could call themselves indigenous to Britain are the Celts, the Cornish, and the Bretons.

Mario Vargas Llosa (Nobel prize-winner for Literature) wrote a book detailing his life called The Dream of the Celts.

The best case for an indigenous culture is the Celts, Cornish, and Welsh.