Origins of the Iberian Celts

An exploration of the origins of the Celts of Spain and Portugal, looking at genetics, archaeology, Roman historical sources and their continuity with the modern population.
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[@hydnars]

I'm an American that moved to Spain to teach English, decided on Galicia on a whim and havent left since making the move 5 years ago. Have fallen completely in love with this region. it has a lot of ancient charm, Madrid and Barcelona feel worlds away, but the atlantic coasts and verdant mountains show their imposing immenseness.

[@angyliv8040]

But your surname is Arias. My mother have arias. It’s a very old and noble surname mostly Galician. They say it came from arius or Aria. The Arian people in Central Europe (celts). I was born in Barcelona but half pf my family is from Galicia and I have morriña about Galicia and the climate. I love rain.

[@hydnars]

@@angyliv8040 good observation, yes I'm an Arias. My parents immigrated from El Salvador and Mexico. I imagine at some point in the past, some of my ancestors may have originated from Northwest Spain. My mother's side is Mexican, curiously her family is from a part of Mexico that was once administered under "Nueva Galicia" during the time of New Spain. I took a DNA ancestry test and I am 50/50 Amerindian and Iberian, so mestizo. But it wasn't precise enough to pinpoint the location in Spain. I assume it's a mix of Extremadura, Andalucía, and Galicia possibly, since those were the regions with the highest percentages of emigration to the new world.

[@asturiasceltic3183]

Many of the Knights of the Reconquest from Asturias have surnames starting with Santo or Santa because they got a title for their role in the Reconquest. They underwent name changes from names like Martinez and Gonzalez etc and became Santos(Santo___ or Santa__) and tend to sound more Latin or Roman than Visigoth like many "ez" ending surnames. That's why there is a saying, "to be Spaniard is a source of pride.. To be Asturian is to have a title." So if you are from North Spain and have a Santo name your ancestors were most likely Christian Knights. It can be the name of a place, but many of the knights got a piece of land.

[@alvarezabonce]

​@@hydnarsYour surname is swabian. Yes, the 1s who settled in Galice (esp. Ourense and Lugo) long ago. And many did establish themselves in O Salvador, Mex, Cuba and Costa Rica, of the 1s who went to North America. Donde Vens Lembra.

[@teresasemanas5707]

​@@asturiasceltic3183pouvez vous me donner la signification pour ce nom et d où il viens "SEMANAS"?

[@LucHywel-xw5tw]

If anyone's obsessed with Celto-Iberian and Celtic warfare in general I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt's videos series

[@thegreenmage6956]

He goes in haaaard omg 😩 his videos are so long though!

[@jakecraftlawrance7206]

I definitely enjoy his work

[@10hawell]

Thanks, do you or anyone reading this have more of this type channels?

[@azubliss]

​@@10hawellDan Davis History

[@YohanPlaine]

​@@10hawellSurvive the Jive

[@nellspencer6417]

My husband can trace his ancestry back 600 years, his family have only moved only 15 miles in that time. He is a blood Cornishman and therefore a Celt. His DNA is 10% Iberian.

[@richardemily1555]

Your ancestors double every generation. 'whole family' .. for 600 years? You're looking at millions of people..

[@FortressofLugh]

It's likely just the way that the testing company defines certain clusters. Commercial analysis is not very accurate in terms of ancestral analysis, but there is some ancient connections that go both ways. There is about 7% Gaelic admixture in Asturias from Gaels who fled Ireland during English persecution. There was also a settlement of the British when they fled the Saxons

[@bconni2]

that's really cool. on my mom's side, we have family who have lived in the same small town in Portugal for around 700 years.

[@Ragis]

@@richardemily1555It’s not millions. It can be that the whole population of that area in the late middle ages are his ancestors several times over. I have ancestry from a small town in Asturias and they are all probably in essence the same people as 2000 years ago.

[@admontblanc]

​@@Ragisinterracial admixtures are overestimated since we're talking about periods when people were much more adverse to accepting vastly different, clearly foreign people.

[@uptown_rider8078]

Thank you for making a video about the Celts of Iberia. We are just as proud of our Celtic culture and heritage as any of our Brothers and Sisters

[@Bjorn_Algiz]

❤

[@MW_Asura]

You again trying to pass up as someone of our countries. You're not, you're American

[@harrietharlow9929]

Great to meet another Celt!!

[@uptown_rider8078]

@@harrietharlow9929 Likewise brother, it’s good to meet you

[@harrietharlow9929]

@@uptown_rider8078 💚💚💚

[@crebafurros]

Thanks for covering this, I am from Galicia and I literally live next to ancient Celtic and Roman settlements

[@nb9419]

However you are the people with the highest rate of Berber DNA in the Peninsula.

[@crebafurros]

@@nb9419 Yes, from the neolithic, it's interesting. "Minifundismo xenético" is interesting too.

[@nb9419]

Yet, you have the highest ghest rate of Berber genes, you know well when they came...Oxford University dixit. As for the highest rate of common genes with Ireland, Asturies isbat thé top of the Peninsula.

[@nb9419]

@@crebafurros ,I know you don't like it, but it is so...If you still have hillforts it's because you surrendered to the Romans and they didn't destroy them as they did in Asturies. That's not in the books of Celts.

[@crebafurros]

@@nb9419 I didn't argue anything, you're correct, and? I don't care about anything like that, is there any problem?

[@LiArianrhod]

Thank you from a Celt from Portus Cale. :) My grandparents were from Viana do Castelo, northern Portugal, which still maintains a Celtic Folk Festival.

[@neil03051957]

Good to meet you.

[@zitarodrigues7336]

We, the Portuguese people, are very proud of our genetic heritage, resulting from many peoples who invaded Iberia, including the Phoenicians, Visigoths, Celts, Moors, Greeks, Romans, etc.We have always been in a maritime passage region, to the North of Europe and to the South, in the Mediterranean.

[@luisoliveira8202]

Me too, Grand father from Viana Do Castelo, Gallaecia Bracarensis, Grand Mother, Culleredo. A Coruña (Gallaecia Lucensis) 😁

[@LiArianrhod]

@@luisoliveira8202 Galicia and (northern) Portugal should never have separated. We are one. ;) I feel at home when I visit Galicia and Viana do Castelo is always in my heart, although I was born and raised in Porto.

[@BETOETE]

@@zitarodrigues7336 t- I like all that, only that Greek or Roman didn't settle in Iberia in great numbers.

[@asturiasceltic3183]

I like this video so people can finally understand we are celts in Asturias and Galicia.

[@gofishglobal7919]

I recently spent 6 weeks in Galicia. While there, it was impossible not to see Celtic features in the people! I even told a few that if I were to take pictures of them, posted them on a website and just below their pictures I changed their names to Sean O'Reilly or Mallory Connelly, no one would ever know that they were not Irish.

[@joltjolt5060]

My galician grandmom spoke gaelic.

[@juanv5375]

🤣👌👌👌 I''m Spanish myself and my wife who is from northern Europe always gets surprised at some many people here looking that way, blonde, red haired, blue and green eyes...

[@gofishglobal7919]

@@joltjolt5060 Gaelic or Galician? I am studying Galician. Gaelic is from a different language family.

[@gofishglobal7919]

@@juanv5375 I believe it!

[@deadforever]

​@joltjolt5060 no she didn't

[@harrietharlow9929]

This is great! I carry Iberian and Celtic DNA. Glad to hear more about my fellow Celts on the Iberian Peninsula!

[@colinchampollion4420]

I am Mexican & carry 28% Scandinavian

[@trex3003]

As a student of all things to do with the history of the Iberian peninsula, I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation.

[@newweaponsdc]

A Welsh linguist here on KZbin (Ben Llwyelyn) who specializes in Celtic languages showed that the reason why Portuguese sounds so totally different from other romance languages is because of the pre-Roman Celtic languages spoken there. He said that Portuguese is Latin spoken by Celts; but Spanish although unrelated to Basque in origin, has the exact same phonemes as Basque so therefore Spanish is Latin spoken by Basques. The -sh sounds before consonants is common to both Irish (Gaelic) and Portuguese; and you find the nasal vowels and diphthongs so common in Portuguese in Breton as well.

[@miguelnunezd6319]

Only portuguese or also galician? Cause they have the same roots

[@teresasemanas5707]

​@@miguelnunezd6319certaines villes, jusqu au nord, mais pas toutes.. Je crois qu'il y a là carte sur Google, et l ancienne carte du comté de coimbra, portucalence

[@dflt5th]

Galicia is considered celtic by many and it still maintains a celtic music tradition.

[@teresasemanas5707]

Et l ancienne galaëcia était jusqu au nord du portugal, même langue, dommage 2 frères qui ce sont opposés... Mais ils seront toujours nos frères... Vive à galicia

[@luisoliveira8202]

@@teresasemanas5707 🥰

[@nathanaelpereira5207]

"celtic"... the ROman stratum is still prevalent.

[@teresasemanas5707]

@@nathanaelpereira5207 on parle de l ancienne "galaëcia" qui était jusqu àu nord... Parlez vous portugais, français.. Désolé, j écris mal en portugais.. Mais je le comprends et parle

[@teresasemanas5707]

@@nathanaelpereira5207 en France, il y y'a un peuple descendants de"bretons"ils on encore leurs langue, dance, chant etc

[@lukedacosta1401]

Great video. Loved this.... From an Australian with both Lusitanian & Gaelic ancestry this topic had great appeal & info avenues to further explore, many thanks.

[@random2829]

A Happy Beltane to you! Thank you very much for the video.

[@addeenen7684]

In my father's line I am a Celt of the Eburon tribe. Julius Caesar tried to kill them. My ancestors then fled to a swamp in Brabant. From my mother's line I may be Hallstatt, the later center of Celtic culture. The culture was not static, every region was connected, like nowadays Europe.

[@harrietharlow9929]

This Dobunni (amongst other Celtic tribes) greets you!!

[@mueezadam8438]

Spanish culture flourished, but not in the way that Greco-Roman and later Franco-Normans could appreciate. It is hard to believe mere ‘hill people’ caused Carthage, Rome, Visigoths, Andalusia , and (frankly) Castilian rulers so much trouble to actually subdue beyond nominal allegiance. They were not the kind of conquerer culture that gets overrepresented in the history record, rather they were the unconquerable.

[@Adventures_with_nick]

I have been studying this for several years, this is the best video I have ever seen documenting Celtic lineage in the Iberian population. Very very well done with this video and thank you!

[@Leontemplar-yt6ff]

The earliest surviving account of Irish origins is found in the Historia Brittonum ("History of the Britons") (And the Origins of the Arthurian Legends) written in Wales in the 828. It says that Ireland was settled by three groups of people from the Iberian Peninsula. The first are the people of Partholón, who all die of plague. The second are the people of Nemed, who eventually return to Iberia. The last group from Hispania (mīles Hispaniae), who sail to Ireland in thirty ships. All but one of their ships are sunk. its passengers are considered the ancestors of all the Irish.

[@Leontemplar-yt6ff]

It also says that after that even more waves came and inhabited Britain.

[@ionaguirre]

Quite a nice video. I'm from nothern Spain, actual Navarra (basque and spanish, of course, speakers) but living at Avila Mountains, the land of the Vetones(Vetons) tribe. People here is very concious and proud of their celtic heritage. Many traces can be found everywhere. Paints, engraved stones, figures, ceramic ... Again, nice video.

[@FortressofLugh]

Thank you and best wishes

[@junuc10]

I have both northern Spanish and Irish DNA. My grandparents came from Galicia in Spain a region with strong Celtic ties.

[@nathanaelpereira5207]

but still is Roman at most.

[@brawndothethirstmutilator9848]

@nathanaelpereira5207, Roman was a citizenship not a DNA.

[@nathanaelpereira5207]

@@brawndothethirstmutilator9848 More than that, it was an integration, acculturation and wanting to be part of it.

[@gofishglobal7919]

​@@nathanaelpereira5207Did you not watch the video? Have you not seen hapolo maps on Spain? I am of Galician descent and spent 6 weeks there doing a genealogical study. While there, it was impossible not to see Celtic features in the people. I even told a few that if I were to take pictures of them, posted them on a website and just below their pictures I changed their names to Sean O'Reilly or Mallory Connelly, no one would ever know that they were not Irish.

[@asturiasceltic3183]

@@nathanaelpereira5207 Nope, the Romans used that area as ports but was never conquered.

[@Alfablue227]

As a Portuguese tracing back to the NE area of Minho, going back past the middle ages. I can tell you how proud I am to have 75% of Celtiberian DNA and 7% of modern Scottish, Irish, Welsh! The rest is basically Roman & Moorish both at at 9%. We also have some Jewish and Greek DNA in the family, but I didn't get any; my sister did. Our culture to this day honors our Celtic heritage, especially in the North, but we also honor our Roman and Moorish legacies, and will continue to do so.

[@user-rq7el8nh6q]

The whole Eastern European Atlantic was a Celtic sea and trading routes

[@portucaleminho3191]

Que programa usou para descobrir o se dna

[@Alfablue227]

@@portucaleminho3191 Usei o My Heritage.

[@user-rq7el8nh6q]

@@portucaleminho3191 nosotros Celtico, no ?

[@AnonYamnaya]

​@@Alfablue227 Sinto muito, mas nao é confiável e usa cluster com uma tendência muita relativa

[@Bjorn_Algiz]

Ah I'm in love with the title already! ❤😊 thank you for sharing this! I will tune in with an open ears and a clear mind.

[@michelleg7]

According to recent genetic studies it shows that celts of the UK and Ireland were from Spain so it was a truth to what was said.

[@omereris852]

I really enjoyed that. Thank you so much! I am a proud son of this ancient soul tribe. A true Iberian.

[@asturiasceltic3183]

No hun, Anthony Bourdain said the Asturias mountains was the most beautiful place he ever traveled to in one of his last episodes of Parts Unknown.

[@TheHeathenCoalition]

Interesting Topic, Happy Beltane!

[@Puzzledtraveller]

I'm Basque. My surname Inclan is a parish in Pravia in Asturias and my DNA is majority Basque Spanish.

[@random2829]

We have a Basque community in Arizona. Some interesting history: The State of Arizona takes its name from a ranch started by Bernardo de Urrea sometime between 1734 and 1736. The general area around his ranch was also known as Arizona. He and a majority of the first explorers, settlers, and miners in the area were Basque and it is they who probably gave the Basque name Arizona (the good oak) to the region.

[@DrVictorVasconcelos]

I was 29 years old when I realized by surname "Vasconcelos" had to do with Basque Country.

[@MW_Asura]

You mean you're American

[@random2829]

@@MW_Asura In some parts of the country, those are "fightin' words". Many have not bought into the concept of the "melting pot" where ancestral languages, cultures, and religion are destroyed and replaced with "American" culture.

[@harrietharlow9929]

@@random2829 Thank you! So tired of being subsumed into "the "melting pot".

[@janschipper5750]

Nice one again. Keep up the good work.

[@Andy_Babb]

Fantastic! Another well made doc! Thank you! Love this channel

[@kathleenmccrory9883]

Very interesting subject. Thank you for sharing.

[@DGB120]

Awesome content! Best way to start off the day❤

[@rorymax8233]

Fascinating and very enjoyable 👏👏👏

[@edfer81]

I'm related with this. Greetings from Barcelos (Barca Celia)

[@SirMillz]

I've always had an interest in the Celt Iberians. Thank you for this video.

[@juststardust8103]

Great video full of information.

[@anxeletemccolin699]

Great video, so well documented and enjoyable. Thank you for the good work and greetings from celtic Asturias!

[@GarfieldRex]

21:43 Extremely interesting, just the other day I was watching a video of thr Celtiberians, but was missing the origin, of the Celts specifically. Many thanks! Also, it is assumed that the Astures in the region of Asturias who began Spanish Reconquista were pretty intact in their Celtic culture, Christian with some pagan rites, but pretty cohesive and not much alike the Visigoths and Romans.

[@chesvilgonzalezvilches8309]

🇪🇸 Las tribus hispánicas, celtas, íberos, celtiberos, turdulos, lusitanos y otras más lucharon y resistieron a los romanos durante 200 años. Numancia es el símbolo de la resistencia y el sacrificio de un pueblo ante el invasor.

[@Benito-lr8mz]

Son nuestras verdaderas raíces étnicas y culturales no perderlas nunca!!.

[@BETOETE]

celtas ibericos, uníos contra el vasallaje romano al igual que trato Inglaterra con Boudicca (desafortunadamente perdio, pero su memoria de rebeldía persiste!).

[@mueezadam8438]

@@BETOETECassius among other classic historians was an unreliable narrator writing centuries after the fact, with an agenda to write off any Roman loses as flukes or treachery rather than any legitimate strength of the opposing force. Why did Rome lose Britannia? B-because we were too busy! _(Ignore the fact that the province was like half a century old at this point- implying the romanization effort barely reached past the settlements)_ Why did Rome lose Germania? B-because those damn barbarians were incapable of being civilized! _(ignore the fact that most rebellions were Romanized Germans who described living conditions in the empire as worse than slavery-Bavati revolt for example)_

[@raulpascual3947]

Es interesante que Numancia (y como el video menciona las ciudades celtas mas importantes se hallaban en el centro de la peninsula) esta en Soria, los mayores y mas claros restos arqueologicos ‘celtas’ se han encontrado en diferentes partes de lo que ahora es Soria, Zaragoza. Los mejores ejemplos de escritura celta se han encontrado en Zaragoza (Botorrita, se muestran en este video), pero seguimos hablando mayoritariamente de Galicia y Asturias como regiones celtas. Pseudo historia. El video espero haya abierto la mente de algunos. Aunque por los comentarios que leo no lo parece.

[@BETOETE]

@@raulpascual3947 no se olvide Braga.

[@GalicianMeiga]

Great video, thank you for sharing this.

[@Steven-dt5nu]

First video I have seen by you, and I enjoyed it. From the information to the humor.

[@Alasdair37448]

Beautiful video and I love your conclusion at the end. Also could you link some of your sources in the description so that I might delve into this topic a little deeper and see the evidence for myself?

[@nurnu349]

Many places in Spain and Portugal still keep rituals and spirirual beliefs, folklore that are practically identical with the ones practiced in Ireland and Wales and France, and which are of Celtic origin. The Catholic church couldn't quite erase them and were adopted a under the varnish of worship to Saints and Virgins. Some Spanish family names keep their Celtic roots, those ending in -briga, for instance.

[@Brenden667]

That was well done. Good story telling.

[@weblightstudio8215]

Thank you for drawing my eyes back into this fascinating past. You are much improved at it

[@anna3046]

I’m Portuguese blond with green eyes with origins in Northern Portugal, Celtic country!

[@teresasemanas5707]

Roux, blond dans ma famille avec des yeux bleu, verts et moi très noisettes en amande..

[@asturiasceltic3183]

Celts were known to be darker and shorter with round, hooded eyes, pointy face.

[@anna3046]

You tell yourself that

[@asturiasceltic3183]

@@anna3046 It's documented. The celts also bleached their hair in times of war to blend with other tribes or to scare off their enemies.

[@user-of9go8yc2d]

Força Luso

[@Benito-lr8mz]

Viva Viriato🇵🇹 y Viva Numancia🇪🇦

[@Hispania_45]

Arriba España ✋🏻🇪🇸

[@jamesbusald7097]

great show

[@user-nw5fg2mw8b]

Thanks interesting wise info

[@binalcensored2104]

Being a Bragaerae, since kid I always felt a great attraction for Ireland and Scotland, I even used to dream with those places, it was like I was dreaming with an ancient home village...

[@KrlKngMrtssn]

It's a romantic sentiment, an emotion. Legitimate but irrational.

[@binalcensored2104]

@@KrlKngMrtssn Microbs were just something irracional not even 100 years ago.

[@teresasemanas5707]

Je suis attiré par l Irlande et fascinée depuis mes 11ans...et je ne comprenais pas pourquoi. C est quand j ai vu un film et à l âge de 11 ans, je suis tombé amoureuse et j en n est 55ans! Et ma famille viens de tras dos montes, bisous à tout les portugais dans le monde 🇵🇹🇫🇷

[@st4rl0rd10]

Cantabria is beautiful. Guys, you should visit it sometime. Galicia aswell

[@jal051]

But specially everything in between.

[@monique6549]

Fascinating!

[@rafeldi55155]

Gracias por el video.

[@pedromiranda1000]

In the center and north of Portugal you'll still see a lot of evidence they left behind. Fun fact, if you're Portuguese and you go to Galiza you'll notice that the language is really similar to Portuguese, maybe an evidence of our common ancestry. Also there is a local places in Portugal where some people speak a língua mirandesa (similar to my own name :D) which if you're Portuguese is really hard to understand, not sure if it's related to celts or not. Another fun fact, in Portugal you can see the statue of Viriato in Viseu and you can also see another statue in a museum in Zamora, Spain. Viriato is a lusitanian heroe that fought the romans.

[@lofdan]

Modern Galician and Portuguese has got nothing related to Proto-Celtic except some vocabulary substrate, like other Iberian languages. Mirandese is and Astur-Leonese language, related to Asturian and Leonese, spoken in Northern Spain.

[@dave3gan]

Excellent video, really found it interesting - especially the connections to Ireland (being Irish)

[@thegreenmage6956]

Nice one Kevin 👍 another one 😙

[@user-hg1ky3cj2s]

Wonderful video. Thanks so much. Lynn in Naples FL

[@Cailean_MacCoinnich]

Very interesting vid. As a native Scot with 50% Celtic, 24% Scandinavian and 20% Briton, I feel for the Iberian Celts. The native populations are being decimated faster now than at any time in history. We've lost our languages, most of our cultures, and now we're being removed from the gene pool.

[@MalachiHealey]

Do not go gently into that good night.

[@MaironTheAdmirable]

The britons were celts. So you’re 70% Celtic

[@bconni2]

you still see the Celtic legacy in the north of Spain & Portugal. blond hair, blue eyes and fair skin is not uncommon in the Iberian peninsula, the further north you go.

[@MannyKnowsYourSecrets]

@@bconni2 Those are mostly visigothic and english, french and other immigrant heritage.

[@teresasemanas5707]

​@@MannyKnowsYourSecretsles celtes était aussi beaucoup roux, aux, yeux bleu, verts... Et je suis du nord... Très blanche aux yeux amande noisettes et beaucoup dans ma famille sont aux yeux bleus, verts et aussi du roux.

[@Airmanagild]

Not only foreigners, but even Spaniards usually forget about our Celtic roots. What's more, some even have some kind of war declared against the "celticism" of Spain. So thank you very much. Edit for typos. Lost the heart given by Kevin in the way :(

[@arturogonzalez6232]

So true. My family is Mexican going back hundreds of years. But there are a lot of blond and colored eyed individuals (I’m not but my father is) Neither Roman nor Arabic genes on my Spanish side made sense. At first I thought it was Visigothic ancestry but upon more research there was a consensus that Celtic genes made more sense. Back to your point, it’s true that even in Latin America and Spain we many times forget that the Celts played an important role in the history and peoples of Spain and by extension Latin America.

[@angyliv8040]

@@arturogonzalez6232Visigoth gens are not very extended.

[@ArganthusTheGoth]

@@angyliv8040 but the Spaniards themselves would be the Visigoths since they already integrated with the native people no ?

[@Airmanagild]

@@ArganthusTheGoth well, we are a bit of everything. Both my surnames are Visigothic (Airmanagild or Airmanagilds would be the original Gothic form of my first surname). Therefore, by paternal lineage, most likely I descend from a Visigoth, and I definitely have Visigothic ancestry, given that I have several more Germanic surnames. It's safe to asume. But genetically, it seems the Germanic genes are not very prominent among us. I have greenish/amber eyes and I am white. But I look like Tobey Maguire, not something like Alexander Skarsgård. I'm pretty sure genetically I'm overwhelmly Celt, just like so many other Spaniards.

[@juanfrancisco9417]

​​@@ArganthusTheGothSpaniard race es apróximadamente: 40% indoeuropea celta. 35% indoeuropea íbera. 10% indoeuropean latina. (Roma) 10% indoeuropea germánica (visigodos, vándalos y suevos). 5% semitas (árabe, bereber norte de África, y judia) y otros (eslavos e Iranos por los alanos). Puede verlo en el MAPA GENÉTICO EUROPEO.

[@christophervance1165]

This was dope.

[@spa3362]

Very good video, very well explained and with science and not bullshit.

[@arturoarche4113]

This is such an interesting video. I am of Spanish heritage and some of my DNA is actually Celtic in origin. I was raised in north central Spain in Salamanca, and I remember the history classes mentioning the Celtic presence in that area. There were stone figures called “verracos”, or male pigs near the Roman Bridge over the Tormes River at what was the southern entrance of the city at that time (the 1960’s). I believe these still stand today. These stone figures were all over the province and in nearby Avila and Segovia. These were attributed to the vacceos which were thought to be Celtic in origin. At that time there was not much interest in the Celtic heritage in Spain, other than the Galician and Asturian bagpipe music of the North. The academic stance at the time was that Spain was not generally considered to have much Celtic ancestry, in fact it was argued that their sparse presence was not relevant enough because they were mostly absorbed by the local tribes which were called Iberians. Most of the ancient pre-history at that time centered around these people and the Tartessians that settled in the south. I am very glad that there is a renewed interest in this topic and that dogmas considered true in the past have been proven wrong.

[@tannhauser137]

Los verracos corresponden en su gran mayoría a los vettones. Los verracos son algo exclusivo de los vettones, pueblo celtibérico establecido en las actuales provincias de Ávila, Salamanca, el sur de Zamora, el oeste de Toledo y el norte de Cáceres, aunque ya sabemos que es difícil delimitar con precisión los territorios que abarcaba cada tribu. De los últimos encontrados en el yacimiento de “El Gordo” se ubica en la cima del pico homónimo, a una altitud de 998 metros sobre el nivel del mar, delimitando los términos municipales de Plasencia, Oliva de Plasencia y Cabezabellosa. Tienes también unas ESTELAS, reproducen guerreros celtas con sus ornamentos y armas en Torrejón el Rubio. También se han hallado otros dos verracos en Botija (Cáceres) y otro en Segura de Toro. En realidad no es en el norte dónde habían CELTAS era en la parte OCCIDENTAL DE LA PENÍNSULA y hay más restos arqueológicos en EXTREMADURA que en todo el NORTE junto, por algo los VETTONES, los LUSITANOS y los CELTICI estaban en esa zona. El ‘Tesoro de Berzocana’, conjunto de dos torques (collares en forma de herradura circular) decoradas de oro macizo de 24 quilates y la pátera (plato o vasija poco profunda) de bronce que al parecer las contuvo. Estos pueblos se dividían entre los de origen celta y los de origen íbero.Los que habitaban la zona de las Villuercas, Jara e Ibores, eran del primer grupo, concretamente vetones. Otros pueblos celtas asentados en Extremadura fueron los lusitanos, asentados en el oeste de la provincia de Cáceres, y los célticos, que ocupaban el sudoeste de Badajoz. Entre los íberos se encontraban los turdetanos, ocupando el oeste de la provincia pacense y los túrdulos, asentados en el sudeste. Los castros (poblados fortificados) de Aldeacentenera, Berzocana, Retamosa y Fresnedoso de Ibor son un buen ejemplo de las culturas indígenas de la península ibérica. Ubicados en algunos de los lugares más estratégicos del Geoparque Mundial de la UNESCO.

[@crazychicSHENA]

My dad a Celtic lineage from Ireland The Silures are" Celtic from Welsh Scotland area's we have tribal/Clan paperwork📄that say's spain had some of the Celtic's before Ireland😮.

[@user-lr9ii8jr9q]

😂 You are NOT Celtic ! You are a mix . My Celtic folk do not accept half breeds ! 🤣

[@d.deckert6634]

I luv this education... Thank you so very much. When ancestry report came back from my tests... I was so surprised. I had only 3 ref. : SCOT/WELCH, AFRICIA, SPAIN. This connection gives me breath. Thank you!

[@ComicAcolyte]

I love this channel man I'm obsessed with my Celtic heritage I live East Dunbartonshire in Scotland and I can still feel the echoes of my ancestors and how they resisted the romans. Great place to run my region.

[@pedrokarstguimaraes1096]

💪 I was naturaly listening irish music and culture. It is an impulse writen in genetic. We are still here. About horns in helmets there were not. I recomend “Les Celtes” from Bompiani, sponsored by FIAT, a true enciclopédia about Kelts, in images.

[@FortressofLugh]

Look up Celtiberian helmets. The picture does not show horns exactly but it is based on actual artifacts

[@Leontemplar-yt6ff]

@FortressofLugh I prefer wings myself 😆

[@thebrocialist8300]

Great work, man! 👍🏻👍🏻

[@dhenriqueff]

Thank you from a Lusitanian Celt.

[@bobbbababobo]

Just finishing reading a good book on iron age Celtic culture and druidic surveying and the establishing of pre Roman road systems in Iberia, Gaul, and the British isles. Graham Robb is the author's name, 'The Discovery of Middle Earth' is the title. I recommend it.

[@danielaortiz8946]

Thanx for sharing

[@frankhernandez6883]

*Excellent. from one Kelt to another!*

[@AM-yi4dd]

This makes sense since Spain and Ireland are very friendly with each other even today

[@asturiasceltic3183]

Yes, they treat us like family, especially North Spaniards.

[@laoch5658]

@@asturiasceltic3183 we are cousins

[@asturiasceltic3183]

@@laoch5658 Ahhhh❤

[@colinjames7569]

I already knew this. Gaelige may not have a language. We share history orally. There is a past we know and identify with. Thank you for your efforts Kevhan 😊

[@Uncanny_Mountain]

Same as the Maori in New Zealand Who share the same Sothic Lunar Calendar as the Chaldeans, and the Irish

[@veronicalogotheti1162]

Thank you

[@brunoalves-pg9eo]

I live in northern Portugal and recently made a 5 day road trip through Galicia and they really embrace their celtic origins there. There's references to it everywhere, in Corunha there's a big compass next to the tower of hercules referencing the celtic cultures of europe, including Galicia,, in Santiago you can always hear the hornpipe playing in the background, plenty of celtic ruins all well preserved and sinalized. The natural beauty of the region is also breathtaking, the roughed coast with white sand beaches, the lush green hills that go on for ever and then the cities and villages that you can just feel the history beneath them. Also the fact that galician is basically portuguese with spanish accent makes it feel like we do share a lot of history and origin, especially northern Portugal.

[@danielaortiz8946]

Sodes a mesma gente. Nortenhos são galegos também. Um povo xebrao em dois países.

[@zachscully]

More on the non-Indo Europeans, proto-Celts, and Celts of ancient Iberia pre- and at-contact with Carthage and Rome, for Bealtaine!

[@WillsM85]

Thank you for mentioning that ancient Irish mythology that says that humans arriving in boats from Iberia were the first human inhabitants of Ireland. There has to be some truth to this as it's so specific.

[@isabelfernandez2541]

It is already proven that the inhabitants of Ireland came from the northern part of Spain, it was demonstrated by a DNA study made by a very prestigious university in England (I don’t remember the name of the university)

[@danmaertens7872]

Awesome!

[@navy4735]

I lived in Spain....and it was so mystical....very Celtic ....you could feel it.....gorgeous country ..so many climates.

[@ivanbro1208]

The lusitanii tribe were the biggest resistance in iberia against the romans. And they are to this day our heroes (Portugal)

[@teresasemanas5707]

"viriato" 🇵🇹🇫🇷

[@carlosbah4623]

Ancient Lusitanians occupied some regions of central Portugal, Extremadura and Zamora, Most of the war was developed in other areas of what it's now South and central Spain the nationalistic aspirations of pretending that Viriato was a proto Portuguese or prot spanish are rubbish.

[@josegamurca]

I think I see now why languages like old Welsh and old Portuguese are so similar in certain aspects. They wore the same kind of Celts.

[@vegetariansuniteworldwide8091]

Kilts?

[@asturiasceltic3183]

My great-grandfather from the mountains of Asturias (also a journalist) always had some affinity towards Welsh poets in his writings. Many of the Welsh and Northwest Spaniards look very similar.

[@BBD1]

Nice! I disnt knew! Great video from a Celto-Iberian hehe

[@longliveavalon]

Amazing 🎉🎉🎉

[@MiguelCoBMaggot]

At 18:40 you show my city of Barcelos and caption it as Braga, technically true as Barcelos is in the district of Braga, but they're two different cities, it would be a bit like showing Albany but captioning it as New York City. Just thought it was a bit funny.

[@Sekitoss353]

It's interesting that you mentioned the Bell Beakers being 40% indoeuropean. I am genetically from Northern Portugal, specially celtic places in Trás-Os-Montes and always thought i had 30% indoeuropean and mostly ANF because although i am 1.80m and pale, my eyes are brown, my hair light brown and wavy and i have an roman nose. However when i did ancestry test and later confirmed my results in various vahaduo calculators i was: 46.6% Indoeuropean, 40.8% Neolithic Farmer, 6.8% Epipaleolithic north africa (due to stone age migrations i assume, not moorish conquest, since there is no arab or proto african in the mixture) and 5.8% western hunter gatherer. Do i pass as a Celt? Or do i need to be blue/green eyed from the british isles?

[@FortressofLugh]

Not so much that the bell beakers were 40% Steppe derived. They were actually often higher than that in percentage terms. What I meant was that around 40% of the gene pool in Bronze Age Iberia was represented by this incoming population. The steppe percentages thus would have been lower than that. However, the steppe percentage was increased further with the Urnfield Celtic migration. Commercially available genetic testing should not be taken as entirely accurate. I don't know how they are categorizing "indo-European". However, all Iberian people are indo-European as you have Steppe ancestry and speak Indo-European languages. I wouldn't be too caught up in the specific admixtures.

[@FortressofLugh]

I don't have blue or green eyes either, brother, so if that is the requirement, we both fall flat.

[@Sekitoss353]

@@FortressofLugh Thank you brother, i shall identify as a Celt now.

[@jboss1073]

Celts are not about a percentage of Yamnaya NA, it's about being descendants of the people who called themselves Celts.

[@jboss1073]

@@FortressofLugh "Not so much that the bell beakers were 40% Steppe derived. They were actually often higher than that in percentage terms. What I meant was that around 40% of the gene pool in Bronze Age Iberia was represented by this incoming population. The steppe percentages thus would have been lower than that." That is correct. 40% of the incoming genes, of a people with 70% Yamnaya DNA, resulted in the Iberians having 30% Yamnaya DNA. "However, the steppe percentage was increased further with the Urnfield Celtic migration. " Do you have a paper for that? I don't think there is evidence for that, and I would really like for it to exist, as it would explain today's genetic proximity between Iberians and Central Europeans over Mediterraneans.

[@txibiam6117]

very interesting

[@danthemanjkms]

The present day basque country was inhabited by three different celtic tribes upon the arrival of the romans to the area. Their partial annihilation brought in colonizers from already romanized people and subjected peoples like the ancestors of the basques who were living in and at the foothills of the Pyrenees. Their loyalty was the reason they weren’t ended as a culture and were left alone to be bilingual in latin and in their dialects as well as spread into the current basque country and a pocket of La Rioja during the roman period. It’s curious that the three main surviving ancient basque dialects/languages roughly correspond to the three territories of the previous celtic tribes.

[@silvinabelmonte]

Viva Galicia❤

[@basilbrushbooshieboosh5302]

Great. Thanks. Barrett - Barretta - Barrettes I have kin there somewhere. Closest I know are great grandparents Antonio and Maria Barretta from Italian Switzerland.

[@IamKingCraig]

Arddechog, you are doing important work. Would be good to have a chat. Much to share. Heddwch a bendithion ❤

[@giuseppersa2391]

Well I know what I'm having for breakfast tomorrow morning ❤🇿🇦😎✌️🌹

[@marciocarvalho8975]

A cultura Celta surgiu na península Ibérica como já foi provado

[@redl1ner170]

That's a blatant lie.

[@pt_1070]

Very interesting prog.

[@sylviabendavid]

Thanks

[@FortressofLugh]

Thank you!

[@JayMacTìre]

CELTS ✊️

[@10hawell]

Kant in Polish means outer corner like of a table, with róg (read rug -horn) meaning inner corner, like corner of a room

[@joebidet2050]

Kant in kyrgyz is sugar 😊

[@jacowaco8841]

So it is in both Spanish and Portuguese, canto.

[@javih-jr4vk]

BUEN VIDEO UN SALUDO DESDE ESPAÑA

[@androd-87]

Thanks!

[@FortressofLugh]

Thank you!

[@teresasemanas5707]

​@@FortressofLughbonsoir, vous parlez français, il y'a "les bretons" en France c est bien connu celtes, leurs langues, chant, dance.. Et moi ma famille qui vient de tras dos montes, et nous avons aussi des yeux bleus, verts, blond,et des cheveux roux. Et mon dernier fils... Là barbe rousse 😂, il es pas content. Bien le bonsoir de France

[@lusolad]

Portugal and Spain.

[@alvarodelavega]

From what I have heard from scholars of Iberian history, the ancient tribes in the North of the peninsula were proto-Celtic peoples, an older variant of Celts. On the other hand, it was a huge variety of different tribes, not as a single culture, frequently battling each other. Something like what Papua is, countless valleys and mountains inhabited by different peoples with some points in common, such as metal works of similar shapes, such as tools or ornaments, ceramics, or art.

[@Member3285]

Nice work, I appreciate the evidence-supported statements. Now, I am curious about the cultural influences between Saharan pastoral nomads and bell-beaker.

[@Leontemplar-yt6ff]

(Oldest findings based in Iberia) - “ it is now believed they came from Netherlands”

[@davids9027]

your narrator sounds like Eeyore from the Disney Winnie the Pooh