Where Did the Celts Come from?

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While much has been written on the arrival of the Danes, Angles, Saxons and Normans to the British Isles, few have explored the origins of the people who occupied the land before them. Just where did the Celts come from?
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[@TomorrowsWorldViewpoint]

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[@officialmoai3107]

ok

[@littleandre4957]

Chinese communities have Jewish ancestry as well. 😉🙂

[@ver_idem]

C´mon Man,celts are indoeuropean,protoitalogauls tru their language and behaviour,are you dreaming ?Basque,saami and hungarians are not tru their language.

[@the_fitness_guru_youtube]

To me Galicia is without doubt a deeply rooted Celtic nation, by simply exploring the area and getting to know the culture of the people it is obvious to see this

[@Excommunicated-ei1ep]

Don’t right off the impact of the Suebi on Galicia, the Germanic Tribe who were the Ancestors of both the Swedes of Scandinavia and the Swabian’s of Germany too. They settled in the area of Galicia along with the Iranic Alans and the Visigoths? It was under their influence, that Northern Christian Spain, eventually drove out the Muslim Moors out of Spain.

[@tylerdurden3722]

@@Excommunicated-ei1ep the migrations of the Suebi, Vandals, Alans, etc happened 700 Years after those Gauls migrated to central Turkey. The first time their existence became known, was 250 years after the Gallic migration. The Gaulic migration, was like a snowball accumulating different peoples into their ranks as they moved. In the Balkans the same happened. Many of these Balkan tribes (Paionians, Illyrians, Thracians, etc) asked the Greeks to the south to help against the Gauls. When the Greeks didn't help, these Balkan tribes were forced to join the Gauls until that force ballooned to a size of 170 000. So eventually, a signicant number of those "Gauls" were not really Gauls. But groups native to the Balkans. Also, only a small portion (20 000) of the original group (about 170 000) made into Turkey. Two splinter groups were lucky enough to be hired as mercenaries and were let accross onto Asia (after the initial defeat in Greece). The other 150 000 were either slaughtered (or enslaved) in various encounters against the Greeks.

[@Excommunicated-ei1ep]

@@tylerdurden3722 I agree with your points but i was replying to @the Fitness Guru about his comments about Galicia (North-Western Spain), not so much about Galatia (Central Turkey).

[@tylerdurden3722]

@@Excommunicated-ei1ep aah🤦

[@Excommunicated-ei1ep]

@@tylerdurden3722 No problem mate, it’s easily done, I’ve done that myself, often.

[@stephenbray9816]

It's still spoken here on the Island of Cape Breton, Canada.

[@Tywaz.Longshadow]

I'm Scottish, Irish,Welsh from both Dad and Mom's side. Yet I'm also Native American Cherokee and Delaware from my Mom's side since she's half blood Native. My grandfather was full blood. When I got my ancestral DNA done I learned that i have a strain of haplogroup XB in my blood. Which is in certain natives that is also only in and supposedly from the middle east. I thought that was very interesting. I think we're all more connected than we know. Why does such strange history go unnoticed and unstudied?

[@vixillen4036]

Completely agree with you, (watched this video 9 months after you commented :/ )

[@coppertopv365]

Good Question..

[@coppertopv365]

Middle Eastern blood could've Came to England from Roman's

[@Alan-in-Bama]

@Court Lewis - As someone with VERY similar ancestry as yourself...I believe we ALL ultimately descended from 1 or possibly 2 types of the original humans to exist. If you believe in any of the major religions around the world, as I believe in (most) of the Bible....the major religions all have very similar stories of early man being of 7 tribes. I'm certainly no Bible scholar nor archaeologist, but with many centuries of humans migrating and conquering each other and colonizing..... (Which was ALL people at one time or another, Not just Europeans of recent centuries), it makes sense that most everyone has some percentage of DNA from most people around the world. BTW - my Mothers ancestry is from the Lewis family of the Southeastern U.S., lineage traced back to Wales.

[@Xscilune]

It's ignored on purpose.

[@hectorlopez4365]

There are Celltic people in Spain today and they play the bagpipes also. I am a Celtic by my grand mother's side. She was Lugo.

[@Virpatrick]

Well said,,, plus, Lug was a Celtic deity, then Galicians named the city after this Celtic god in modern days,.. not only bagpipes and bodhrans link Galicia to the isles but also triskels and other celtic symbols found all around north western Spain

[@enriquepascual8767]

@@Virpatrick , Well in fact Galicia was one of the places in Spain the less celtic, castreña culture was not celtic at all, the real celts lived in waht today is Castilla y León region (the big celtic tribe was the vacceos together with celtiberians, arevacos....) and also in Aragón region, or the basque region, but what today what is Galicia wasn't celtic, sometimes lies are spredaded and believed by majority, is being discussed if lusitans from what today is Portugal or the spanish Extremadura region were celtic or not.

[@enriquepascual8767]

@@Virpatrick , The vacceos were the biggest celtic tribe, they were a confederation of 30 cities, several thousands people each in what today is Castilla y León region (the high plains in central Spain above Madrid), they fought fiercily against romans like in the Intercatia city, kzbin.info/www/bejne/qYLEZJKCpM2ejZY

[@enriquepascual8767]

@@Virpatrick , Numantia was another celtic spanish city (this tribe was the celtiberians) that during many years defeated the roman legions until they took it with a very long siege, the people of Numantia died of staverness, and the last survivors prefered to commit mass suicide rather than surrender, romans could only capture few hundreds who were then murdered. The lusitans were also very brave, Viriato chieftain defeated romans many times, lusitans even embarked to Africa to prosecuete the romans overthere, romans could only conquer Spain after 200 years of very fierce wars, and by using continuos treasons, bribes and continuous alliances with some of those tribes.

[@gabrielp9646]

@@enriquepascual8767 What do you mean by Galicia was one of the less celtic places and the "castreña culture" was not celtic at all..?? Not only its celtic, but its even categorized in the Goidelic cathegory of celts by every historian xDxDxD Man, there are literally countless founds of celtic gods represented in galicia (Bodan, Lug, Coventina, Cosso...) and the galician language has also been studied and confirmed as a clear member of the gaelic languages by many different language-experts from different countries...

[@mj_dolman5122]

It's fascinating that both Southern Europeans and British or Irish Celts share Anatolian origins, yet do not typically look similar at all. Perhaps this shows what a few thousand years of genetic separation can do. On the other hand I wonder about the effects of admixture. I also heard that Celts came from Eastern Europe, and it's apparent that Baltic people have some traditions in common with the Scots, such as bagpipes and plaid.

[@molecatcher3383]

This video is full or errors: 1. The Celts have never been considered a Germanic people. 2. Celtic is part of the Indo-European language group that began with the Yamnaya culture (3500 to 2500 BC) in the Ukraine, not in Anatolia. 3. In 7000BC there were no indo-Europeans (i.e. no Celts) in Anatolia. 4. A migration from Anatolia may have happened starting in 7000BC but is more likely to have been Neolithic farmers who were not Celts. Genetically the Neolithic Y male haplotypes have been almost totally replaced by Bronze Age immigrant Indo-European haplotypes (R1b and, R1a in eastern Europe) 5. The declaration of Arbroath includes mythological legends (including biblical references) and is historically unreliable.

[@Lusitani74]

Not to mention that "celticism" is cultural and not genetic...

[@o-o2399]

@@Lusitani74 what is it with all you so called Celtic Iberia man you probably a romans moor visgoth

[@Lusitani74]

@@o-o2399 That's a very short list of all the peoples and cultures that lived and influenced Iberia...

[@o-o2399]

@@Lusitani74 not true you are Germanic indeinal

[@Lusitani74]

@@o-o2399 Your historic knowledge is as good as your english... "internet expert" ... lol

[@rebelspirit000]

I am Mexican from central Mexico and my mom would tell me stories about her grandpa's skin color, eyes and hair. Her last name (which sadly got muted when she married my dad...in a way) was Licona... Come to find out it's actually of Basque history. I've just found this out yesterday but I've come to read and watch videos of Celts and other peoples from Spain (I'm super interested in the origin of Basque people and the language) to the point I now want to do a DNA history test.

[@jeanisdancing]

You can share with is what you found out

[@Downey-2000]

I'm Mexican and I have a Basque name

[@laikaspod]

I am Filipino and I have a Basque name and lineage from my dad's mom.

[@laikaspod]

The Basque people are very interesting historically and genetically and yes, they are descended from Celts.

[@jeanisdancing]

@@laikaspod Intresting, yes, but I am not sure if descent is established. Something very old and symbology is similar, for sure.

[@bernarddelafontaine6747]

Thank you for sharing.

[@patricksampson2944]

Why is it that the Anglo Saxons who murdered many English Celts merely “settled” England but the Normans invaded England? Red flag in his first sentence.

[@seeminkhan9347]

Angles and saxons were Germanic tribes who were invited as mercenaries.After the Roman empire left Britain, the people living north of Hadrian's wall were seen as a threat

[@mormacfey]

@Owen Cradoc Well yeah the word English means, 'of or pertaining to the Angles.' Old-English is the Anglo-Saxon language. But then we are talking about culture not race. The word Welsh is derived from the Anglo-Saxon word wilisc meaning 'foreigner', 'stranger', or 'non-Anglo-Saxon'. But even the name Briton is derived from Latin Britannia. The Greeks called it Pretannia. Albion is it's oldest and is stilled retained in Scottish Gaelic 'Alba', Irish 'Albain', Manx 'Nalbin', and in Welsh, Cornish, Breton as 'Alban'.

[@GuyFromTheSouth]

Just like in America they say we whites invaded the natives but never talk about how the natives invades the clovis people. The natives weren't here first either. People do this to make it political

[@GuyFromTheSouth]

@Living Soul 144 Oh they were terrible, they were known for torturing people for fun, the comanche tribes were the absolute worse.

[@72Yonatan]

Because the university narrative got it wrong, the the Saxons who invaded didn't murder the indigenous people, they married with them, passing on the language. The Celtic people who live in Portugal and Spain no longer speak a Celtic language. And the modern British are the same genetic stock as the Irish and Scot.

[@Weeperofdeath8567]

Born irish a quarter Scottish celtic history is very interesting and I'm glad other people have the same interest

[@tameraalvarez6438]

The Scott's and Irish are the same stock.

[@aisl6190]

Over 30 years ago, I met a woman from Galicia, N Spain, in the Canary Islands.. (I am Irish from Dublin, back to "oul God's time, which probably means I have a lot of Anglo-Saxon, Norman, Viking, English Yeoman in me.. ) As women will, we were going about our domestic tasks, and started humming the same song.. "How do you know a traditional Galician song?",says she, my Grandmother sang that, says I, "It's Galician", "Nope" say's I "that's an old Irish traditional song"... (Buachaill on Eireanne, if anyone cares to know)... it lead me on a search.. not particularly scholarly, but.... Bob Quinn's documentary from the 1980's, and the book.. Atlantean, and a lot more other stuff has led me to subscribe to the idea that you cannot ignore mythology... (see Heinrich Schliemann :)), Leabhar Gabhala in Ireland.. and bagpipes, Uileann pipes ... Galicia, Basques, Scots.. Also.. - we could go down a very long road if I said that the Galatians from the Bible, originated in Asia.. as did plad weaving, kilt wearing and horse domestication and drawn chariots.. many went East, but some went West.. There is a theory that the "invasions".. - of Ireland (Leabhar Gabhala) of the late stone age, early bronze age (mythologised, captured and rewritten by monks and then badly translated, with original documents lost.. by 1500's) ... were by a ruling class, whose technology was so superiour that it was adopted by the natives.. along with the language. Miletians, from Miletus in Anatolia, Turkey.. were among them. Ancesteral DNA, seems to suggest that a large part of the Irish pop has a lot in common with Turkey, Anatolia.. The neo lithic hunter gathers of Ireland were absorbed, and maybe even overwhelmed, but probably by commerce not by war. If we look at the spread of English because of computers, right up to social media platforms and mobile phones.. 1980's to 2020 - it will seem like rapid spread to history, 2k years from now..... and looking back 2000 years at +/- 50 years might not mean much... I love that the science/ archaeolgy has moved on, and gotten scientific enough to prove it. The transmission of the music might have been North South, or South North, it might have been 16C or BCE... or even Victorian Adventurers... but in my gut, I knew we were distantly related.. Just, guys.. let's keep exploring. I have no evidence, but I know the Basques are special and separate, I know the Cretans are important, and I know that we still have trace we can explore. We don't entirely need written records backed up by the powers that won, (i.e. the victors who wrote history, ) now that we have more modern science and better archaeology. I just want to know more about who we are, and how connected we are over milennia. And yes, maybe the song was spread in the late 19/ early 20th... but at least I'd know.

[@TomorrowsWorldViewpoint]

That’s fascinating! Thanks for sharing.

[@adampaul83]

The canary islands are not in the north of Spain.

[@Lisaa872]

Thanks this helped me out 😊

[@psychedelicfoundry4474]

The Celts migrated from the East from greater scythia (the pontic-caspian steppe) to Central Europe. From their they migrated east to Anatolia and west to the Atlantic Coast of Europe. The Celtic groups in Anatolia haven't been there nearly as long as the groups that used to be in Central Europe. They didn't migrate from there. They migrated to there relatively recently. In 278 BCE actually is when they settled in Anatolia, coming from Thrace. Well within historical record.

[@cna4350]

Common words between Gilaki(a language In Iran) and Irish

[@cna4350]

Breast Chuchai. Chiche Chicken Kark. Kark Rika. Rocyn ...

[@lwmaynard5180]

Ripath mentioned in the bible appears to be the progenitor of the cymri Celtics located at the back of ancient Iran about 2200 bc, they spread to Thrace , epirus

[@BH02377]

@MAGNI Ancient Irish histories weren't written. They were spoken.

[@BH02377]

@MAGNI yes sir

[@lucy4576]

I'm English (apparently lol) and I adore the celts! Amazing and beautiful culture!

[@sickymicky36]

Only with regard to the Irish, Welsh and Irish the Celtic culture is someone else's culture, I'm afraid. But even so, they have done a terrific job in turning it into a Cult of Hatred.

[@hopclang9409]

@Young Pappy Lucy didnt copy their language. And in fact the welsh copied the culture and farming of the english

[@hopclang9409]

@@sickymicky36 hatred???

[@equinsuocha9174]

@Young Pappy hafta show the boys your comment chap ✊🏻🇮🇪😂

[@eamonnclabby7067]

I,m Irish and love living in England and supporting Tranmere Rovers..the only English football club with a Hiberno Norse name, a fair few fans fly in from Norway...

[@jobob47]

very interesting. thanks

[@hugohernandez7953]

I knew they came from spain, some welch ppl have a very mediterranian look.

[@hopclang9409]

the beakers were said by the romans to be dark skinned

[@patrickf2671]

Some Irish are called "Black Irish" because they are so dark.

[@hopclang9409]

@@patrickf2671 the Iberian Celts were much darker than the second central European wave, the darks would have been pushed west from wales into ireland. Look at the Irish no 9 and 10 for example

[@patrickf2671]

@@hopclang9409 Thanks for that....My Mothers people were 100% Irish going back 100's of years but they were incredibly dark to the point that they stuck out a mile in the locality for generations !

[@hopclang9409]

​@@patrickf2671 you can read up on what the Roman historians recorded on the Celts they found in UK and Ireland, through history often people stayed where they started, so if darker celts were in Ireland before and after the Romans and before and after the Normans for example then they are still therhundred

[@mormacfey]

I'll hold my judgement until the invention of the time machine.

[@LexlutherVII]

Mor MacFey it's impossible to build one tho!!😂

[@zSion]

@@LexlutherVII How so?

[@suedenim6590]

What do we want?A time machine! When do we want it? It's irrelevant

[@72Yonatan]

Great wit. Thanks for your comment.

[@honeylambb9864]

Other videos here on youtube show the Celts originating in the foothills of the Alps in Switzerland and Austria. They were part of an ancient people called the Hallstatt culture and later called the La Tene Culture.

[@roodborstkalf9664]

You are entirely correct. Celts came to prominence starting in the Alpine region of the 8th/7th century BC when they started the Iron Age, giving them superior weapons and therefore the ability to conquer a large part of Europe and most of Britain.

[@harrymcnicholas9468]

That is not true. They came with the other Indo Europeans.

[@nanaz1066]

Honey Lambb I read that the celts nestled up to the failing Hittite empire and were likely and very luckily the inheritors of their famous and superior metallurgy. Celts also had a monopoly on the salt mines of Europe making them fairly wealthy . One place in particular named Galicia in southern Poland is evidence of their history in that region. That they had been a nomadic tribe from step.

[@_robustus_]

Alanna Huston The Hittites had been gone nearly a millennium by the time the Galatians showed up in Anatolia.

[@LukeTEvans]

@@nanaz1066 iif the celts and italic languages are similar then so suprise the le tene celts were the celts.. its the archeological material culture theory that scientists and scholars made not some dude

[@thedrivefields]

Julius Caesar in his book "About the Galaan War", a book in the form of memoirs, gives us the following information: that the religious ceremonies the Celts and the Galatians were the same as the Greek ones, while in the language where the Dryides were spoken was also Greek. But his officers also conspired with the priests of Celts, the Driys, speaking Greek. Like their gods, they had the same or corrupted Greek names as Diis Pater - Zeus [Zeus] Father. Greek mythology tells us that when Hercules raced to the West, he fell in love with Galateia, a nymph with whom Kelte and Galati had two sons with her. Where these two children came from the Celts and the Galats. First in Ireland and then in Britain. the Danaoi [the Danae refer to the Homeric Epic, where the other name of the Greeks] is in the hands of Ireland until the coming of the Milesians, the sons of Miletus [Miletus was a colony of the Athenians] ". The Irish legend states that this breed was descended from divine ancestors. Continues: It was Thursday, May Day and 17th Moon [lunar calendar], when the Milesians arrived in Ireland. Paramalans on the islands also landed on May. The Irish legend states that the King of Parthals came to Ireland three centuries after the great cataclysm. It is said that it started from Macedonia or Middle Greece accompanied by a small group of people. Among them were three oysters from Dodoni, which were called Phios, Aeolos and Phomoris. An ancient Irish poem by Amerginos says: "I rely on the land of Ireland. Gallini is the fertile sea fruitful are the mountains with fruitful trees, full of fruitful trees are the cool forests, cool is the waterfall of the waterfalls, from cataracts deep boulders are formed, deep ponds are the sources of the slopes. A breed source is the great reunion, the gathering of the kings of Tara. Tara is the acropolis of the tribes, of the tribes of the descendants of Miletus, of Miletus with many boats and dinghies. A great boat is Ireland, the majestic Ireland, the trodden one. Make an invasion of great art I invoke the land of Ireland. "

[@dios1ish868]

It's not Greek, it's ancient or archaic Albanian. Even in the mythology of Kadmus and Harmonia, Illyrus and Celtic were brothers.

[@theforbiddenhistoryseries3309]

THANK YOU !!!

[@jerrysparks8555]

''Historians have traditionally seen the Celts as just another Germanic tribe that migrated west from central Europe'' ..... That is a painfully stupid thing to say. Whatever theory one subscribes to regarding the early Celtic peoples, they were not, since the terms involved refer to language families ''Germanic'' by definition

[@ebrelus7687]

When Celts migrated to Europe no germanic people existed yet or italic people.... germanic people was a much later mix that contained celtic admixture to even start to exist.

[@roodborstkalf9664]

@@ebrelus7687 : not true. In Western Europe after 5th century BC Germanic tribes advanced south from Denmark, after 7th century BC Celtic tribes advanced north from the Alps. Around 100 BC in Benelux north was Germanic, south was Celtic. It's an open question which language was spoken in Benelux before arrival of Celtic and Germanic tribes, lets say in 5th century BC. Conclusion: birth of Germanic tribes is not related to Celts at all.

[@ziblot1235]

Jerry Sparks I have never read anywhere that Celts were Germanic. The Germanic people are easy to spot by the similarity of their languages. Try and pronounce a Gaelic word with yer Anglo Saxon tongue...haha The study of the Gaelic people’s is fascinating, but a real mystery.

[@Seekarr]

History sure isn't taught very well in the UK if their historians think the Celts were Germanic.

[@damaslpressath]

not true..it is more weird...hahahaha...some germanic an celtic tribes where fighting, some where alianced.....even most Germans are not Germans (I mean Deutsche) Nazi-propaganda....now we know that many celtic tribes where in actual Germany romanised...an old thing yes....Boios, Vindelicos...but now they identified Reti people as a tribe related close to semitic speaking Etrusks...and romans had little idea what´s going on at north of Danube and right of Rhein-river) Nazis used the in 1900 rediscovered book from Tacitus: " De Origine et situ Germanorum " to glorify that germanic tribes....and in cesarian era they write: there was only one tribe called themself Germani...the celtic belgian tribe Germani Cisrhenani.....maybe greeks where first to call some people north of Alps Germani....Tacitus: The ethnonym Germani as used by Tacitus does not necessarily coincide with the modern linguistic definition of Germanic peoples as any people speaking a Germanic language, and the details of the classification Germani have been debated in scholarship, e.g. the possibility that the Batavians may therefore have been Celtic-speaking. Tacitus nevertheless shows no lack of precision in stating that the Nervii are not actually Germanic as they claim to be (chapter 28). He also notes in chapter 43 that a certain tribe called the Cotini actually speaks a Gallic tongue, and likewise the Osi speak a Pannonian dialect.......

Seeing all the great "specialists" theories, my conclusion is that the "celts" came from Mars...

[@weepingwillow-ud6xl]

World Wide Web: Food for thought OR complex lies spun to entice the weak & the gullible?

[@Xscilune]

The Irish came from Egypt DNA proves it. And They not Blacks built the Pyramids.

[@Aberamentho2010]

@@Xscilune : The early Euro-Irish scholars clearly admit they were predated by the Black Celts and got their culture from them. Let's stop being dumb just for the sake of White Supremacy. You were taught lies; we all were. Ancient Egypt consisted of Black/Brown Africans. If the Original Europeans were Black/Brown people(see Cheddar man), why would you believe that white people were running around in Africa building mounds and temples? In what universe does that even sound logical. I know white supremacy is important to you and your people, but dayum bruh.

[@ryanfretwell1267]

@gearoid quirke are you a historian ?? because you're fairly wrong about that.

[@COLT-kl1pi]

They came from our country portugal

[@outthere9370]

Great news! Thank you for a concise explanation.

[@mikemcgarrity7572]

Great Chart Labeling on the Timeline!

[@marioavgherino8383]

The near east is acceptable but the more accurate geographic term would be Anatolia. Middle East is completely inaccurate.

[@danythrinbell1596]

was at the end of the Hittite empire , that people , escaped from the Babylon invasion with hurrians and Canaanites trough egypt and north Africa reaching western Iberia even before Anibal Carthage

[@guyanaspice6730]

@@danythrinbell1596 yup, initially academics thought the bible accounts of hittites was not true. until the academics discovered the hittites in today's turkey(anatolia). and still much is not revealed to us today. i'm know the oriental institute in chicago, funded by rockefeller, has some of the hittite artifacts. some reason i think it does not reveal all. also, i'm finding that many try to hide scythian history. odd because the scythian queen tomyris defeated and killed cyrus the great, who is mentioned quite a bit. just seems odd; scythians were around that black sea; traded with greeks thru black sea); traded with others; herodotus reports they were very civilized. wondering why they are not discussed more. i wonder if academics don't want the history of aryans to be explored. idk hmmmm see robert sepehr channel vids or neptunes lagoon (spell without apostrophe) channel vids.

[@danythrinbell1596]

@@guyanaspice6730 well bro i got it very stamped in my DNA , BALKANS COPTIC EGYPTIAN AND IBERIAN and all my matches are with people with that traces even scots and irish , manly with ones with ancient european traces , my haplogroup is j1 and i don't have any ancient matches in middle east, only in iberia USA Poland Belarus Ukraine no traces of jewish in my DNA from so many autosomal tests all studies that i been searching took me to hittites hurrian phoenician ancient populations findings that are back up my linguistics and archaeology findings in my country of birth, yes there is a big cover up of ancient history just look at egypt , very fascinating ancient civilization that been most of the time hidden in the shadow of great Rome and great Athenes

[@johnmcgrath6192]

Unfortunately Middle East has replaced Near East f or some reason. In my childhood and teens only Near East was used, with Middle East starting in Iraq. I now prefer geographic terms such as Far Western Asia (for Near East/Middle East) and Far Eastern Asia (for China, Japan, etc.). Being Irish I find the terms Near East and Middle East somewhat painfully colonial.

[@Freawulf]

A lot of people seem to mistake the British Celts (Britons & Gaels) for the pre-IE population substrata (neolithic and other) occupying most parts of western Europe at that time (related probably to the early Iberians, Ligurians or even the modern Basques). Those were the people who built Stonehenge, for example. The fact is that the Celts proper, were actually a much later addition to the British Isles' genetic/cultural pool. According to Julius Caesar, most of the Briton tribes he faced when he landed in Britain were kin to the Belgae, which is actually quite interesting since the Belgic tribes were an ethnolinguistic fusion between Celts and Germanics to begin with...

[@BETOETE]

professor Bryan Sykes says that in reality there are not much to talk about the celtic invasion of all the British isles since there are not enough evidence,just a cultural one. Something to talk about.

[@roisinmalone3015]

Ireland is not a British Isle.

[@ClaribelleC]

@@roisinmalone3015 Yes it is. The 'British Isles' is simply a geographical term for the group of islands in North Western Europe. Has been for thousands of years. Great Britain gets its name for being the largest of those islands, hence the word 'Great'. Many Irish people often make the mistake of thinking this geographical term is related to the British nationality. But it is not. Having your country be a part of the British Isles, doesn't mean you're being referred to as British.

[@roisinmalone3015]

@@ClaribelleC It's not a legal term and has no standing.

[@roisinmalone3015]

@@ClaribelleC Ireland is not a British Isle.

[@gigilaco]

This is fascinating

[@derekmcquattie9444]

Really cool!

[@bartholomewtott3812]

This research is fairly old. The was an initail wave of migration by neolithic farmers from the middle east. But the celts are thought to originate from the indo europeans in central asia after all its an indo european language.

[@Wsrtw53]

Totally correct, I mean it’s really not that hard; I can’t belive the stupifyig confidence this was presented with, despite every genetic and linguistic authority showing they were Indo European Bronze Age Steppe invaders who dominated Western Europe for a time., and also clearly diverged in the alps

[@TomorrowsWorldViewpoint]

As mentioned in another reply to a comment: "The two referenced studies are linked in the description field below the video. The primary journal referred to in the video was published in 2010. The second journal referenced was published in 2015." However, in the scientific community, it is possible that this is already considered old news.

[@frankjoseph7259]

I have read recently that the Basques, Aquataines and others were present in Europe during and maybe before the last great ice age.

[@Wsrtw53]

theyre probably the last Mesolithic Europeans, and Sardinians and southern greeks are some of the last Neolithic europeans

[@Member_zero]

I don't think I learned anything new. Still interasting presentation. I mean depends how much back into the past you look in to, the genetic evidence supports the theory that all people came from africa and then migrated towards middle east, europe and asia. So it is logical to assume the Celts migrated from that area. It would be logical to assume therefore (and I stress this is assumption only), that their culture, language and even their physical appearance would be much diferent when they were living in middle eastern area, compared to how Romans would see Celts 7000 or more years later. The question is therefore different: At what stage would you stop calling them Indo-Europeans and instead call them Celts? Afterall people from Italy also came from that area but evolved differently after they settled.

[@sidritqafzezi3958]

The Celtic tribes migrated from the Caspian steppe and settled in Iberian peninsula, France British Isles etc. Then they split from each other and hence their language diverged into distinct ones. The Celts of Ireland and Britain were shorter and darker compared with the Germanic tribes who came there at the end of the Roman empie in Southern Britain. This waa because proto Celts mixed a lot with Neolithic farmers who were shorter and darker.

[@peterfazziola9081]

How could scholars have thought the Celts were "just another Germanic tribe" when most linguists believe that the Proto-Celtic language was more closely related to Proto-Italic than Proto-Germanic?

[@beverlytaff4914]

Looking at that map, it seems to me that the Celts might have made that migration by sea on coastal journeys in small steps in primitive boats. The first travellers to Australia did something similar from Africa through South Asia, Indonesia and New Guinea.

[@keatonsmith5669]

The Celts of antiquity were a woodland folk, surely they would have some sort of naval tradition if their ancestors used boats?

[@willinnewhaven3285]

Jobling was one of the authors of _Human Molecular Genetics_ I read both the first and second editions. Great book.

[@angelahackman2522]

I am Welsh, and have been researching their origins. I live in Cardiff, which is the Capital of Wales. We were taught a bit of the Welsh language at school, but nothing about our history, only about the English. Wales is full of Castles etc, and we have had a few Princes. I always felt there had to be more than we were being told. Like most on here I have my own belief in my history, so please don't give me bad comments. In my research I found 2 historians who have been researching King Arthur for 40yrs, they have traced the origins of the Welsh, or the Cymru, as we should be called, back to Ur, or Assyria, they say Old Welsh (language) is Hebrew, and they came here in 1.500 B.C., Brutus was the 1st King, and they had to fight Giant's here. In the British museum there is the black Obelisk, the carvings tell of the list tribes, and their story, each tribe would be named after their King at that time, Ohmri, (this name varies along the journey) Humri, Ghumri, kymri, etc. But they believe our origins started there. In 1846 the [Welsh Not] act banned us from speaking our native tongue, as were the Irish. Pity we were all denied the knowledge of just about everything, and if truth be known we all want to be God's chosen one's.

[@jesusisking9035]

Celts are not Jews

[@danythrinbell1596]

@@jesusisking9035 na , that people have nothing to do with jews , but heloim was they god

[@MacSherry]

Hebrew language speaking does not make one Jewish. Many languages are connected throughout history. The truth is what matters….so let us keep digging for it…no more holding history back. The USA’s Smithsonian M

[@eoghan-]

@@jesusisking9035 But why are our Genes linked to Egypt but now have no trace? sounds like an exodus to me

[@eoghan-]

@@danythrinbell1596 Where can i see information on this?

[@vickypaulson9264]

Nancy Hanks Lincoln had the rare x1c, which is found in Ireland, and Syeria.

[@harry9392]

As an ulster scot I am a celt, there is a legend that the celts are one or two of the lost tribes of isreal

[@anihtgenga4096]

You had me intrigued until you mentioned the book by Herbert W. Armstrong. He used to call his ministry "The World Tomorrow" -- much like your group's name.

[@raydavison4288]

You are right and they have been peddling their crackpot theories for almost a century.

[@marbet2395]

What a news!!! The Galati you find also in the letters of new Testament were Celts. North Italian ancient people were Celts. The so called Galli in ancient France were Celts. Greeks Romans and Macedonians fought against Celts and write about them. Have you ever read the De Bello Gallico of Ceasar? Celts were not only in British islands.

[@patrickf2671]

There are only a few of us left on the fringes in the UK and Ireland....We will soon be replaced !

[@Aundrich]

Explains the name of their language "Gaelic."

[@branthomas1621]

@@patrickf2671 Most of us are early settlers, who share DNA with Basques, only 30% are made up from Germanic immigration and they are mostly in the east, especially Yorkshire and East Anglia. I think this thin fringe you are talking about in the extreme west. We must go forth and multiply 😁

[@robertolang9684]

@@patrickf2671 you been replaced so many times no problem is like the cd now just a file no need cd for it to play

[@robertolang9684]

@@branthomas1621 basques are ibros north Afrikaans arrived in Iberia 10.000 years ago from Egypt

[@thomasb8658]

The title should be "Where did the British Celts come from?" It is a bit misleading and one could think he means the Celtic People as a whole.

[@GlenDeanII]

Loose Brick Blues

[@shrekisthebestanime3644]

Fred Garvin Britons are celts

[@IamKingCraig]

Much to share

[@chatsberry5817]

I'm almost half Irish half English/Northwestern Europe. DNA tests name my ancestors migrations to be similar to this path. Except mine began in Ukraine in the Mesolithic and settled in bronze age Czech Republic before traveling to Western Europe.

[@EasternOrthodox101]

That's because Ukraine was the land of Magog (the original home of the Germanic people) which was one of the early settlements of the nomadic Scythians (Ashkenaz) - the ancestors of the celts

[@milaboeva3714]

The Goths ;)

[@terrytzaneros8007]

Scottish culture has a Scythian and related Sarmatian strain inherited from the Roman legion recruited from the region of the Black Sea stationed in the north of Britannia against the Picts.

[@southerntriskel]

I'm a South Africa born from a father of Irish descent and a mother from French Brittany. What I learnt growing up in Brittany is that the Celts are not just an ethnically unique tribe but also a type of person who has a different view on Life's Values than other people around the world....a Soul of their own... they did, according to my education originate from what would be today's central Germany. They were artists in everything they did, from building to clothing, jewelry, music etc...and they hated war. They were pushed from the Saxons to the North then from the Vikings to the west then the Normands to the North, which took them to now England...from there pushed to Ireland by the Roman's and they migrated back to france to a region now called French Brittany....where they are still alive and strong. Goodnight.

[@tylerdurden3722]

They were being hired as mercenaries for being fierce warriors about 1300 years before the Normans or Vikings existed. And 1000 years before the Saxons. Celtic culture was a war-like culture that involved many invasions. One such invasion, was the invasion of Italy. Rome was once a relative normal city, until it was sacked and humiliated by such marauding Celts. This humiliation, is what turned Rome from a normal city into a gung-ho warmachine. Rome became militarily extra aggressive to prevent a repeat of this. Their insane walls they built, right after this event, was to prevent a repeat of this. The Romans had a deep hatred and fear of Gauls and that fear and hatred was used as a political tool in Roman politics. They made a point to never forget that humiliation. All the wars they started were labled by them as Pre-emptive defensive wars. All to prevent other from doing what the Gauls had once done. (Basically, the Romans created an empire by "defending themselves" preemptively). In their eyes, the only way to completely remove a threat was to totally subjegate that enemy and then turn them into Romans. To the Romans, the invasion of Celtic territories was Payback. They even went to the trouble of tracking down the specific tribe that led the assault against their city 300 years prior and commited horrible attrocities as retribution. The Celts were not a war hating culture, otherwise the Romans would not have existed as they did.

[@estefaniacastillo133]

This is correct. We are soulful indeed. Also the women are very supersistious by nature. This i can identify with Also ancient celts were known to not be very good at writing things down. Alot of things are hidden or unknown due to not being documented or found so to speak. Being from North Wales we are very musical People its in our blood its normal to hear all age groups singing any time of the day anywere. We are said to have the best voices in the World. Although am not to sure if this connects to our Celt heritage or our Welsh roots.

[@martynhaggerty2294]

Galatians of the bible epistle of Paul.. also Portugal... containing gaulic name ... France originally called gaul ... no mystery here the evidence is still all around us. The celts began to speak English the way the welsh and the Irish had to . The British isles is still mainly Celtic as genetics proves. Even in India we see a previous ruling class (Brits) produce millions of English speakers. I was amazed how fair the Portuguese were in a travel documentary I saw recently. Plenty of gaulic genetics there!

[@ajrwilde14]

no the Galations were a separate group from the Gauls of France

[@martynhaggerty2294]

@@ajrwilde14 same origins though as the name implies..." Asian gauls"

[@PindusWrath]

Well if you check the European haplogroups, most of them originate from the Near East regardless To me Celts were "born" in Central Europe, they are the descendants of the Urnfield culture and they expanded during the Hallstatt and La Tene periods

[@celticviking1945]

Nope. That's completely not true. R1b is the dominate "celtic" Y-DNA, from the steppes of Russia.

[@maureendevries1904]

Steppes

[@eamonnclabby7067]

Like the proverbial bag of Kilkenny cats ,best wishes from the wirral, with Hiberno Norse ,place names ,Frankby ,Irby ( place of the Frank and Irish respectively) Wallasey ,Welsh Island Irish ,Noctorum (dry hill ) Angles ( Bromborough/Brunanburh/Bromborough) Eastham...

[@dave2.077]

ah yeah "celtic viking" from the yt comments surely knows more about ancestry than the head of the genetics department that has a detailed genetic study to draw conclusions from.

[@celticviking1945]

@@dave2.077 there is a plethora of modern genetic studies which show now that R1b is Indo-European...this wasn't the case 10 years ago, but it's basic accepted fact now. Almost all mainstream sources, even mainstream testing sites like familytreedna, ancestry, etc all accept this as true.

[@1themaster1]

So if there is a genetic link between the Celts and ancient Anatolians, are there also linguistic links? Are Celtic languages reminiscent of Hittite or Luwian?

[@arulprakash7836]

Thank You 🙏

[@perinestor2717]

Read the ancient Greeks they must telling you everything.

[@SLBLADE]

Yes sir great job

[@maryanderson9835]

Gaelic is a language spoken by Celtic people even to this day

[@michelemcdaniel6032]

My maternal grandfathers and grandmother spoke Gaelic in the US until the mid 1960s

[@barnabyaprobert5159]

In the Bible, when Paul is writing to the Galatians, he was writing to Celts who were living in present day Turkey.

[@mehitablestorm8877]

But they didn't start out there. They started out in the steppes further east.

[@jackjft9654]

Present day Turkey has nothing to do with ancient Anatolia, the celts started in the Caucasus and the steppes andspread our all the way west to the alps, stayed there and then slowly immigrated to Britain for hundreds of years.

[@jackjft9654]

B.a.l I’m talking about the ethnicity of Turks, they have nothing to do with the ancient celts from the Caucasus or the Anatolians, they came from Seljuk Turks, Mongols and a bit of Greek, and yes I’m aware a lot of Turkish people have euro descent but you would only find that in western Turkey.

[@shannonxpennywise]

I'm Welsh Celtic. Cymru Am Byth! ♡🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿♡

[@hmq9052]

Funny to think you're originally Arabic

[@Andulsi]

Surprised you didn t use the Leabhar Gabhala Erenn

[@mweskamppp]

I think you have to split between the genealogie and the culture. What is now known as the celtic culture did in fact started north of the alps and spread to spain, slovakia, north italy and the balkan and then arrived on the british islands. one tribe made it to anatolia (bible, letter to the galater). This culture did not follow strict language borders. Interesting to follow the migration of those people to the british islands, though. Would be interesting to know when they came in contact with the celtic culture and what is left from earlier times. Me personally would like to know for the head hunting thing was only a thing in northwest europe or common in the whole celtic culture area.

[@mikerowland1701]

Whoa! That is the exact route my ancestors took from Turkey. Exactly.

[@feaweninglorin6035]

Still there is some caves and tombs in Anatolia from celts

[@Hayk6666]

Armenia my dear brother. Turkey is only 800 years old

[@feaweninglorin6035]

@@Hayk6666 -.- there are celt tombs in eastern thrace it is not close to armenia

[@baraxor]

I've long been interested in the origin of the Celts and the various groups that settled Ireland and Great Britain, but when one tries to look into the matter most scholars of Celtic history can't be bothered with anything earlier than the Hallstatt era, so that you'd have the impression that Celtic culture sprang up fully developed in the middle of Europe less than 3000 years ago. Literature such as the Leabhar Garbala is useful in some ways, but of course by the time these were recorded they were mixed up with pseudo-Biblical elements as writers struggled to reconcile native legends with Scripture.

[@musicasprogram4286]

leabhar gabhala

[@Musick79]

What link below?

[@radix133]

Thanks for including Devon in the Celtosphere!

[@neilw259]

"A relatively new scientific study has found genealogical evidence..." A single uncorroborated study with a clear purpose in mind.

[@lukegoffkat]

I'm guessing you don't have much faith in Science, Sure they make mistakes, but they build on the knowledge and get better at it every day, VS one old book.

[@fauxmanchu8094]

Neil W Are you a historian? If not, don't embarrass yourself by making ignorant claims.

[@randomvintagefilm273]

DNA doesn't lie. WE didn't come from Africa

[@johnprentice1527]

@chrismacsims Who has ever claimed that science is the absolute? I am a scientist and I have NEVER met a scientist that thinks a particular piece of science is absolute. All science is provisional based on current evidence. When new evidence comes along that challenges a prevailing theory, the scientific community alters its assumptions. There is often a period where competing scientific ideas compete with one another, but eventually a new consensus emerges.

[@RenaissanceMan29]

Historical record backs DNA... More than corroborated.

[@henrywalker630]

You’re confusing the Celts with the Early European farmers dummy.

[@celticrose2]

Thanks 😊👍🏻🌹

[@richquatro415]

I’m putting my whole life into building time machine; I clearly failed.

[@thomasmccauley414]

The Boii tribe dominated central Europe, before being decimated by the Romans. This can be attested by all of the places named after them. Bospherous, (water-way between Europe and Asia). Bavaria, Bohemia, Bologna,Po river. Based upon the etymology of place names in southern- Germany, Czech-republic, Northern Italy, it looks as if Boii (Celtic- tribe) made an impact in Central Europe.

[@nataliadyuk1464]

In the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine lives an ethnic group, which as DNA studies show differs from the rest of the neighbouring population. They are called Boiky. Wish there was more info to find out if there is connection with Celtic tribes.

[@MROEnglishLessons]

I'm brazilian and my grandparents on father and mother's side come from North of Portugal with culture and celtic ethnicity! I'm proud of my history!

[@roodborstkalf9664]

Ok, is their still a difference with the non-Celtic parts of Portugal.

[@hopclang9409]

@@roodborstkalf9664 non-celtic? you are clutching straws. Celtic blood makes up 10% of Portugal today

[@roodborstkalf9664]

@@hopclang9409 : That is in line with what we know about history, i would have guessed more like 20%. But that also means that according to this study Portugal is 90% non-Celtic. So what is wrong with what I said ?

[@hopclang9409]

@@roodborstkalf9664 nothing wrong. But it's like when they say 80% of the French in Breton are Celtic, i would argue that no Bretons are pure Celtic and also none of them are pure French, rather that 100% of them are 40% Celtic. It's the same as 45 million yanks saying they are irish! Common sense would dictate that there are 100 million Yanks who all have 10% Irish DNA. DNA is not a trend you can cherry-pick, or fake from a Disney Fairy story. So everyone in Portugal has some celtic DNA, whether that is from the Iberians who migrated up and through the Pyrenees or any movement of people since, the Vikings who raided the coast would have been 10% Celtic themselves. So 99% of Portugal has some Celtic blood. But also we often confuse a language with a people. For a language to utterly disappear one would safely assume the ethnicity of the people who used to speak that language is now very low. What percentage of Portuguese towns and rivers are Celtic words?

[@roodborstkalf9664]

@@hopclang9409 : For the USA and your Irish example I certainly agree. For Europe less so, I agree that we had extensive ethnic mixing, but dialects and cultural customs tend to change very slowly. In my question I was wondering if in the regions in Iberia were the Celtic influence in the past was greatest you can still recognize this today. For instance in Low Countries and Germany to the present day there are still dialect borders and cultural differences reflecting the different tribes to which the ancestors of the inhabitants belonged to. These borders were fixed around the year 700 AD, so that is a long time ago.

[@mweskamppp]

The early farmers had another main route through the black sea and up the river danube to central europe. These people reached the british islands app 3000 to 4000 bc.

[@sandraswift3489]

The Bible tells you where the sons of Noah settled the tribes where they went.abraham was from Ur.

[@MatthewMcVeagh]

I'm afraid this is bollocks. Many commenters have already told you their opinion of how, here is mine. There WAS a migration from the Middle East via northern Mediterranean shores round to northern Europe... but there's no reason to think it was 'Celtic'. It was the Neolithic migration, bringing farming to Europe, around 4000 BC, and it was accompanied by a parallel migration through the land of Europe from the Balkans to the centre. The language of those people is lost to us. The Celtic migration into the British Isles is two migrations later - in between is the Bronze Age/Beaker People one. From 700 BC the Iron Age came to the Isles with people from France, Belgium and possibly Spain who spoke languages we today call 'Celtic', a branch of Indo-European. This language family had expanded out of the Ukrainian steppes via conquest by horse and chariot from thousands of years earlier. However as it expanded those who spoke it would have had less and less genetic inheritance from the original Indo-Europeans, as the invaders mixed with one conquered people after another. By the time the Celts came to Britain they were already watered down by the Alpine and French peoples the earlier speakers of Celtic had conquered and mixed with. If you take away Norman, Norse, Anglo-Saxon and Roman contributions to British DNA, the remainder is not specifically 'Celtic'. It may be closer to the DNA of the inhabitants of Britain before the Roman conquest, but very little of it is specifically from the originators of Celtic language and culture in the Alps of 1000 BC. Instead that has been mixed with the DNA of the people between there and Britain, and even more with the preceding British DNA, which is from Paleolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age sources. The majority of British and Irish inheritance is from these sources. In a separate matter... Greater Scythia is the Russian steppe not the Middle East. There's another Scottish/Irish legend that has their origin people coming from Scythia through Egypt. There are lots of these origin myths, and they're made up to give a glorious past to one's people. They are copies of the myths the Romans, Greeks and Jews told about themselves in their writings, e.g. Exodus or Virgil's Aeneid. They are not remotely historically reliable accounts.

[@roodborstkalf9664]

Intelligent comment. I noticed that the more intelligent comments are at the back of the queue and most have zero recommendations.

[@truthseeker2033]

Yeah obviously all Europeans came from caucuses which is near Caspian sea known as "indo_Europeans" which made of many different branches like proto-Iranians and proto-germans,ext... scythians were a branch of iranian people made of many tribes, after migration of most of Iranian tribes to East and iranian Plato and their European cousins westward scythians dominated central Asia and today's Russian steppes which was ideal for their nomadic lifestyle, many of modern people are descendants of scythians like Slavics , celts and many of eastern Iranians descendant of parthians, or Gilacs in North of iran who has strong resemblance to modern French people, Gilaki is very similar to Gaelic. And of course we're very different in terms of language and culture but it's very interesting we share common roots

[@MatthewMcVeagh]

@@roodborstkalf9664 Hi Roodborst Kalf - only just reading this three years after you replied, I think I had notifications off for a while. You are quite right, what most people are interested in is sensation, and careful thought reduces that, so we must downvote the intelligent comments and upvote the short, attitudinal ones.

[@MatthewMcVeagh]

@@truthseeker2033 All Europeans do not come from the Caucasus or any other particular location, they are a mixture of origins. Also there's no connection between the words "Gaelic" and "Gilaki". And I doubt the Celts were descendants of the Scythians as Celtic is known to have started further west than the Scythians ever were. Apart from that a lot of what you say is true.

[@truthseeker2033]

@@MatthewMcVeagh I assumed you knew those so didn't mention, of course these aren't concrete facts,after all we're coming from a comon ancestors but as I've read (forgot the book's name) scythians were living from Ukrainian flat fields to near China, and a lot of didn't know they're related to each other and I thought maybe there's some connection between guals and Gilacs because of their similarities which easily could be coincidence and you'd be right, especially in today's age we're a mixture of all kinds of gene pools

[@thelittlesignpost]

Could it be that Kelts/Celts = Hebrew Hiberew Iberew = Iberia - Hibernian? I can recall an explanation of this some while back, but I don’t know where that is today! It is, however, interesting the similarity in the sounding of the words! We know some of the migration was from Iberia in Spain/Portugal to Ireland and Scotland, both of which portray Hibernia, very closely related to Iberia! Could it be Hebrew? Mmm, I’m Working on this one!

[@shotpusher]

Saxons= Isaac’s sons (Northern Kingdom) from Adam (Ha’Adam = to show blood in the face)

[@MoonmanRocks]

Only one people fulfill the Abrahamic covenant and prophecies. Europeans!

[@jeanisdancing]

This is exciting to me. I am in Armenia and visiting cultural sites and museums, of course. Their stone crosses and the symbols in their rugs etc are totally Celtic, no doubt about it.

[@feaweninglorin6035]

I knew it kardashians are white

[@jeanisdancing]

@@feaweninglorin6035 Huh?

[@armennazarian7097]

@@feaweninglorin6035 no

[@runner432000]

As commenters below have rightly said, the Celts are of Indo-European origin. One proof of this is the similarity of Celtic with the ancient Indian language Sanskrit. Many Celtic words have their roots in Sanskrit.

[@mehitablestorm8877]

My father told me long ago that some Indians actually seemed to understand Scottish Gaelic because they had words in common. I don't know the truth of this but I've heard this repeated often.

[@JL-wf2wp]

Picts were in the UK before, no doubt. Celts from north of spain and france conquered them and took over the UK. They are our ancestors. I descend from celts from spain

[@hopclang9409]

what???? the picts were Brythonic or have you erased fact?

[@ajrwilde14]

@@hopclang9409 no the Picts were not Brythonic, as described by Bede

[@donatala1]

To the citizens of Great Britain, whoever will likes my comment or not, I want to inform and emphasize that the word "BRIT" in Hebrew means "Covenant or Alliance" and ISH = to "MAN" outcome of BRITISH can be interpreted as "Covenant or Alliance of Man or People"

[@hopclang9409]

that makes no sense. So by your theory Anglesey got its name from fishermen hahaha

[@DanaAshlie]

YEP. And all these different waves (Celts, angles, normans, vikings even) of people were all of the same original genetic stock coming in at different times...many left Egypt before Moses did

[@MindfulMomentsInNature]

Interesting the information on the gene/DNA - I've recently started learning Scottish Gaelic, and I've really took to it, my only family line was my grandfather on my mother's side was from Scotland, I had Irish grandparents on my father's side and I wondered if there was a kind of dormant gene (dormant meaning the gene is present but doesn't really have a specific function until required maybe something to do with evolution?) the "dormant gene" gets activated in the brain especially if you are drawn to a particular time period. Language is a fundamental aspect of human beings as well migration so it would be interesting to learn how humans have evolved and whether DNA plays a role in how we adapt to learning.

[@user-pd9ju5dk5s]

Language doesn't necessarily mean ethnic history. Many ethnicities throughout history had their native languages influenced or even replaced by foreign languages. Look at Jews or Filioinos for example.

[@eliwahuhi]

Kinda silly.

[@eamonnclabby7067]

Karl Jung talks about collective conciousness

[@texanforeverthompson3645]

Many years ago (perhaps 55) I lectured on how much classic Celtic art forms resemble those of the Scythians. This commentary tends to verify the connection. I also lectured on the similarity of the Celtic physical characteristics to the Kurds. Blond hair and a light complexion occurs frequently in the Kurds of the Middle East. I suspect this is more than coincidence. I am Celtic but no longer am able to play the pipes due to health issues in my old age. ... Slante. .

[@eamonnclabby7067]

Slainte to you too, keep well and safe over there..peace and love from the wirral, site of the great battle of Brunanburh/Bromborough 937AD,Wirral,namechecked albeit in Welsh in the medieval poem of sir Gawain and the green knight..

[@xxyy5431]

This is ridiculous. No Kurd has blond hair. I know them well. 😄

[@truthseeker2033]

Exactly, kurds are descendant of Meds, a group of iranian people who along Persians and parths(a scythian tribe) migrated to iranian Plato around 3000bc to 1000bc Another scythian tribe which currently exists in northern iran is Gilacs (Gillan province) and the similarities between them and Gauls are too much to be coincidence in my opinion

[@anotherbloodyfanwriter1941]

So if I could trace my ancestry back thousands upon thousands of years I’d finally end up on the Pontic steppes and Caucus Mountains? Makes enough sense to me.

[@chaishalom8701]

It's not that simple.

[@tylerdurden3722]

Only if they had Hitler's ideas of purity for thousands of years. Otherwise, expect a lot of mixing along the way. Adding to the list of ancestors. E.g., you have 2 parents. 4 Grandparents 8 Great Grand Parents ....go back only 30 generations and that number goes above 1 billion ancestors (statistically) Of course inbreeding and keeping it in the genepool keeps that number lower. But unless those migrating groups were led by Hitler, expect plenty of mixing.

[@S3Kglitches]

all whites

[@markcurranjr7366]

I once remarked to a Spanish fella about how the Celts came from Galatia in Spain and he said "That makes perfect sense, because the people in Galatia are the most stubborn people in all of Spain." (that was quite funny) The Irish and the Scottish are the same people, the gaelic language spoken is the same. There is some linguistic evidence that the celts were also once known as the Phoenicians or at least the Scottish and Irish branches, not so much the Welch, because their language is completely different.

[@sully8317]

Irish history tells us we came from Scythia through Europe and live by the Spanish and Portuguese before going Ireland then some went to Scotland

[@markcurranjr7366]

@@sully8317 I have heard of some connection to the Scythians, who were comprised of a variety of tribes, north of Iran ,but as of yet, I havent read the history that connects those dots. I do see a bit of a connection in the drawings of animals by the Scythians, which somewhat resemble the old irish depictions such as were on the old coins and early Irish Christian artworks. The connection to the Phoenicians is this PHOENICIAN OF PLAUTUS: Byth lym mo thym nociothii nel ech an ti daisc machon Ys i do iebrim thyfe lyth chy lya chon temlyph ula. EARLY IRISH-CELTIC: Beth liom' mo thime nociaithe, niel ach an ti dairie mae coinne Is i de leabhraim tafach leith, chi lis con teampluibh ulla. My irish is not good enough to translate this, but I do recognize quite a few words. In 1772, General Charles Vallancey, a leading Irish scholar of the day, published his famous work, "Essay On The Antiquity Of The Irish Language, Being A Collation Of The Irish With The Phoenician Punic Language." In his opening remarks he states, "On a collation of the Irish with the Celtic, Punic, and Phoenician languages, the strongest affinity, (nay a perfect Identity in very many Words) will appear; it may therefore be deemed a Punic-Celtic compound."Vallancey continues, "from the Canaanite proceeded the Phoenician, from the Phoenician, Carthaginian, or Punic was derived the Aeolian, Dorian and Etruscan, and from these was formed the Latin... Of the Roman Saxon capital letters, the Irish use but three, all the others bear a very great resemblance to the primitive Canaanite and Phoenician." (p. 2-3) Modern language scholars have confirmed that there is a definite connection between the Celtic and Canaanite Phoenician." We do not know a lot about the Phoenicians because their culture was wiped out by the Romans being that they were very much associated with Carthage, the arch enemy of early Rome. And before the Gael came by way of Spain approximately 200 bc (at the time Rome was taking over the world), there were already indigenous people in Ireland, The Tuatha De Danaan, who likely spoke a different language altogether. Irish mythology has two different mythological heros, storylines likely from the two different cultures,There is the Fionn and the Fianna mythology and the Cuchulainn and the Tain mythology. It has all merged into the Irish culture today. There's also a large amount of norse viking culture that assimilated into the irish culture, sometimes becoming more Irish than themselves.

[@outthere9370]

Why is the Welsh language different if they r the same people?

[@outthere9370]

So, if this genetic trait of stubborness is true what does this mean for humanity? Do certain "tribes" have some sort of collective "attitude"???? How can this be??? I do not understand how such a factor could affect a whole "tribe"???

[@outthere9370]

​@@sully8317 O.K. Where did the people of Cynthia come from? No one seems to know this? That we crawled out of some African savanna??? I don't think that is so! Why, because "they" don't know!!!

[@dimitrisorestis8091]

long live Hercules.

[@electrondady1475]

the proto Celts came off the steppe and up the Danube river basin with horses, the wheel, bronze and the ability to digest milk. nothing could stop them. the Rhine river was the border between Celts an Germans.

[@johnlawrence2757]

I got mine at Waitrose - there was a three for two offer.

[@jackragan2182]

As nobody has a time machine, I will continue to refer to all as “Mutts!”

[@BGdroopy]

No one is “PURE” everyone belongs to the golden race of Humans.

[@architecturalmind]

The football club Galatasaray is named after the area of Galata in Istanbul which comes from the word Galatians.

[@roodborstkalf9664]

Hadn't realised this before, but it sounds correct

[@elaguilanegra4354]

The origin of Galata was either "galaktos" (milk) in Greek or "calata" (stairway) in Italian.

[@antonspronken6013]

Have you heard from Batavieren,who do you think they they are

[@historynottaughtatschools9913]

Thanks. Check out: The History of Early Great Britain - the Celts and the England and where they came from

[@derindeniz8341]

about the CELTS Prof. Anatole A. Klyosov, “Overview of Türkic genetics, The principal mystery in the relationship of Indo-European and Türkic linguistic families, and an attempt to solve it with the help of DNA genealogy: reflections of a non-linguist” [Journal of Russian Academy of DNA Genealogy, 2010, Vol. 3] “So far, gene science has found answers to a lot of things that can't be answered. On the origin of the ancient Celts, for example. They are said to have spoken the Indo-European (Aryan) language and migrated from West to east. However, according to the science of genetics, it was determined that the ancient Celtic people had Haplogroub (R1b1b2), that they entered Europe through Spain, that they seemed to have gone from West to east, and that their language was Turkish, not Indo-European.” * Prof. Anatole A.Klyosov, on the migration routes of the (R1B) group, “Overview of Türkic genetics, Ancient History of the Arbins, Bearers of Haplogroup R1b, from Central Asia to Europe, 16,000 to 1,500 Years before Present” [Advances in Anthropology 2012. Vol.2, No.2] in his article; "The southern branch of the R1B group traveled from Central Asia to the Caucasus 6,000 years ago, to Anatolia 5500 years ago, to Mesopotamia and to Egypt 5300 years ago, via Turkish-speaking peoples. One tributary from Egypt reached inland Africa and the other via North Africa to Spain 3,600-4,000 years ago. The northern branch of the (R1b) group entered Eastern Europe 4,500 years ago from the south of Kazakhstan and the Urals, and from there it entered the interior of Europe. " "The R1B group, which entered Europe from two branches, found a very suitable reproduction environment in Europe and formed the most important Y-haplogroup in Western Europe. (R1B) group bearer Turkish-speaking peoples everywhere they were, especially the means of production, organization, astrology and spiritual life, left traces of deep civilization." * Result: according to gene science, Celts are TURKS !

[@akcorbel]

I love it when the guys says the celts were there “century’s before the Roman” hahaha! More like thousands of years before the romans

[@roodborstkalf9664]

Only a few centuries before the Romans is correct. Celtic expansion started from the Alps from the 8th/7th century BC.

[@ilkererol1986]

In Roman time Ancyra ( Ankara capital city of Turkey ) was Capital City of Galatia ( Galat means Celt in Greek )

[@kakoshans4019]

Hattuşa Ankara'nın yanında Çeltik Başkent oldu

[@yousufsiddiqsyed4412]

hmn coincidence , i think not

[@tylerdurden3722]

@@yousufsiddiqsyed4412 These Gauls were the leftovers of a massive failed invasion of Greece during the 3rd Century BC. Gauls that migrated from the Alps into the Balkans, decided to invade Greece after two powerful Hellenic kings died in the same year. After their defeat agains the Greeks, they wandered around the European side near Istanbul. Some were trapped and slaughtered. But 20000 of these Gauls were hired as mercenaries during a civil war in the 3rd century BC and they were allowed to cross over into Asia. They ended up looting and pillaging Anatolia (Turkey) after the war was over. After they were defeated, again, they retreated and settled in North Central Anatolia. (Anatolia was also ruled by Greek kings...the Successors of Alexander the Great ruled regions from Greece to Central Asia). The Greeks refered to Gauls as Galatians in Greek. Hence how that area became known as Galatia. They eventually became Hellenized and then Christianized some time later. But everyone remembered their origins.

[@yousufsiddiqsyed4412]

@@tylerdurden3722 oh thanks

[@TheGuruNetOn]

Migration to Galatia is mentioned in the last part of this video on Ancient origins of Celts : kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZC0mq2Kgq6lY5I

[@davidjamesmclean6325]

This study supports other research and historic academia on the subject. Migrating across the coastline of Europe from South to North was very common in ancient times as traversing the mainland filled with difficult terrain and hostile tribes would have been a near suicidal expédition. Also there are many celtic cultures in Spain and France even today. The bronze age relied on tin to produce weapons and most of the rare material was mined in northern Europe and the British îles and Ireland. Perhaps like the gold rush in the United States in the 1800s, bronze age mirgrants where drawn to northern Europe by the prospect of mining tin.

[@servanpesmerge5643]

Austria (Noricum) is an important part of the Celtic family as well. Please remember us and stop calling us mountain Germans. We got assimilated by Germanic tribes but our Celtic heritage remains part of Austrian national identity. You won't call the Irish English either just because they got assimilated by the English, would you? In 1919, Heinrich Lammasch, the last prime minister of Imperial Austria, proposed to give the young republic the name of Norische Republik or Noric Republic, because the ancient borders were similar to those of the new state, which - at the time - did not wish to be considered the heir of the Habsburg monarchy, but an independent, neutral and peaceful state.

[@robertolang9684]

austyria andswitzeland is the birth place of the Iberian people in bronze age today austrian people do share , DNA ties to Iberian, regardless of more recent admixtures

[@servanpesmerge5643]

@@robertolang9684 True. I always get asked where I am from. I am through generations Austrian, but look more like an Arab, Kurd or Iberian than German. Very true what you say, brother.

[@robertolang9684]

@@servanpesmerge5643 looks do not mean anything but DNA does i talk about my DNA , i know that i live in that area of Iberian peninsula for more than 2000 years but i can match my DNA to ancestral samples from Switzerland Austria , Hungary , Balkans north Italy liguria Provence Iberia , my close populations are Spanish , because of the closeness south France Tuscan Austria and Kosovo , that places are well documented about where Celtic culture originated , the Celtic markers are in England and Ireland not because Celtic DNA but because of Celtic linguistics , that is misleading because England are Nordic shifted in DNA there is a small percentage of population from more older stock that yes they share the same DNA as Iberian because they come from Austrian alps too

[@awickedtribe]

No mention of Larry Bird, the greatest Celt of All!

[@MsHackthat]

😂😂

[@mcnally1456]

Larry legend

[@AnneAndersonFoxiepaws]

Who is Larry Bird? I am Scottish, Celtic and have never heard of this person.

[@awickedtribe]

@@AnneAndersonFoxiepaws He was a basketball player for the Boston Celtics... a white guy from Indiana, a farm boy, who went on to become one of the greatest B-Ball players of all time.

[@acmaurer50]

Visiting Romania in 2017, I was surprised to learn the Celts had been there.

[@goodmustacheman9657]

yep they were

[@goodmustacheman9657]

they were cool tho

[@numaisreginald3671]

Noi nu ți-am spus nimic!

[@expat1250090]

And in Bulgaria too. Plenty of archaeological evidence in museums here supporting that.

[@emersonsilvestre1921]

the Celts of the British Isles come from the Iberian Peninsula, it is difficult for you to accept that you are descendants of the Portuguese and Spanish

[@anncbower5564]

The Keltoi was a tribe in the region mentioned but no one knew where the keltoi had went.

[@Jand1smas]

The "Celts" were never a single people or race. "Celtic" was a culture with many variants.

[@MrKlipstar]

Many came from the Alps,they have an Alpine branch,at least!

[@connorhood4167]

Yes. The Celts in Scotland were mainly from Ireland and the Picts and spoke Gaelic all those years ago when they spoke different languages in South Britannia (England) spoke different language I think

[@connorhood4167]

England isn't a Celtic country anymore and Scotland has some Celtic roots we are Anglo Saxon now have been for a long time the last of the Celts in Scotland were from the Highland clearance one of history first recorded ethnic cleansing Scotland became Scotland when king Kenneth macalpine o think the scots Irish Scots of dalriada and United the Picts and Celts but sadly they slowly got rid off the Picts through marriages and other things there's. More people with the DNA of those ancestors in Scotland all over the world more than there is in Scotland hmm what does that tell you

[@britts9215]

They are still linking up the genetic evidence to the acheology in the laat 20 years. Much of the historical records were purposely obliterated in the dark ages. They are just now linking the acheology, linguistics and genetic evidence together to get a reasonable approximation. Transitioning from broad grouping from lingustics, like Indo-European to studies of cultures predating the fragmentary remnants surviving in Latin records. Huge progress is being made, but meeting stiff resistance from deeply entrenched acedemic dogma. They only transitioned from the bibical assumption mankind began in 4003 BCE in the 1980s. Lots of resistance to change.

[@Jand1smas]

@@MrKlipstar "Celtic" was a culture, not a race of people.

[@eduardobranco7871]

If you really know about the celts, you know they MUST have evolved from Bell Beaker culture, whose genetic "stamp" is R1b. Linguistic, archeological and genetic evidence point to that, in my opinion beyond any possible debate...

[@MickKly-ih4it]

The Vikings or Norse have been settled in many parts of Ireland for over a thousand years , even parts of the country are named in Gaelic recognizing the Viking presence, Donegal which means "fort of the foreigners " in the Irish language, many surnames are Scandinavian and the ancient art work is very similar in both cultures. Apart from Donegal, Waterford, Wexford , Limerick and of course Dublin were major Viking settlements.

[@williamklimek9676]

The Exodus was earlier than was on your screen, at 1472 BC.

[@miguelhmmm6549]

Very interesting but the only area about the Celts I've studied were their relations with Greeks and Romans. I'm sure with such deep roots in America I have Celtic ancestry. I did a research paper on the Picts of Scotland and their origins in theory, a while ago. I picked up a booklet about the Pictish standing stones while I was in Scotland 1991.

[@ivandinsmore6217]

Americans have roots in many countries. The biggest ethnic group is German.

[@StephEWaterstram]

I was told by a Historian Roommate I lived The Celts actually originated in Middle Asia somewhere about the Northern India Region. The Sand Mummies were to have said to be wearing Plaid patterns and had Reddish Hair. Other evidence is in the Celtic Language resembling Indian Language as well.

[@Wsrtw53]

some indo Europeans, the paternal ancestors of all Europeans, migrated eastward from the steppe homeland, hence Sanskrit is indo European, your roommate isn't very well read. look up the indo Europeans and study whats written about r1b, the celts, germanics ect on eupedia

[@jackieblue1267]

You do know that Celtic language is only approx 2,000 years old. Celtic developed out of Proto-Celtic and is a branch of Indo-European. Celtic was never spoken in India. It only developed in Central Europe in close association with Proto-Germanic and Italic.

[@stormyfire2559]

the oldest R1b genes were found about 27000 years ago in Altai Russia(central Asia) I read the research 2 years ago,so not sure if there are any more recent discoveries.

[@roodborstkalf9664]

You are confused

[@esramnor6734]

Tocharians were Anatolian origin

[@HearturMind]

Could the Basque be the Spanish people the document refers to? The prevalence of RH negative blood could be an indication.

[@mlc4495]

I recall reading something about the Celts as a people emerging from the Zagros Mountains region of the Middle East where the Kurds today inhabit. Given there's a relatively high degree of pale skinned, red-haired peoples in that region this isn't a surprise.