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As for the cultural links between the regions during the time of the similar rock art, I am convinced there was a trade route via the Atlantic that bypassed the whole of France. Why take the tin and the gold to the Greeks crossing all of France when you can easily ship it down to Galicia (where after all,they also traded tin with Phoenecians and Greeks) and then down the ancient trackways from north to south to the area round Seville where it would be picked up by Mediterreanean traders. Even the Tartessians in that area grew to be a wealthy and mythical kingdom. Without the metal they got from Galicians, Cornish and Irish , they would have remained in the neolithic.

Many people still dispute, mind you, that British tin ever went down this route, as galician tin was far more abundant in any case but who knows. Perhaps, like the Americans do with oil nowadays, they preferred to store it for the future.

The strong similarities in cup and rings suggests there WAS indeed cultural contacts. I am not, however, a defender of migrations even though the legends say that later on, during the early Dark Ages, Breoghan led many Britons past Brittany into Galicia,founding the kingdom of the Brigantes (well known story in Galicia), or, and not so well known but easy to find in old maps, that among many of the Keltic tribes in Northern Spain, one of them was called the Albioni.


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12th March 2006ce
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