Re: The Celts : a comparative analysis
Bone evidence indicates that the Kelts (Celts) were Nordic with light body builds and receeding foreheads with the nose in-line with the forehead. This profile fits a lot of us, I know, and the Kelts were a major player in Europe.
The central Kelts got rolling about 1000 B.C. in the area of Austria, Switzerland, Southern Germany. Later they expanded into France, Germany, Spain, Portugal. Later into the Low Countries and Britain, Ireland. Meanwhile, back in Austria, some of the more restless Kelts (Le Tene Culture) under a warlord, ventured north, east and finally west into Sweden. This brought the cult of Odin to that part of the world and it is argued that this warlord WAS Odin. This was about 500 B.C., the Golden Age of Greece. About 1000 years later, 500 B.C., these same people underwent a huge population explosion and migreated into Europe as the Germans in various tribes.
My point is that the difference between Kelt and German is chronology more than race. The Germans washed over the Kelts in Germany, Switzerland, France and Britain without ever realizing that they were "cousins" only seperated by time, distance and only lastly by genes.
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