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Littlestone L
Littlestone May 28, 2005 16:11:14
Replying to Jo-anne

>"What have the Celts got to do with Avebury? They lived in Austria and expanded south and east in the Iron Age."<

Sorry, what were these people called again (the ones that lived in Austria and expanded south and east until the came to these islands ;-)

P PeterH
PeterH May 28, 2005 17:41:27
Replying to Littlestone

Check your atlas - "these islands" are north and west of Austria, not south and east. I don't deny that we had a common "European" origin some time after the first people left Africa, but...

To put it in modern terms - it is true to say that all Austrians are Europeans, but it is untrue to say that all Europeans are Austrian.

The "Celtic" label was erroneously attached to the group of languages of the western indigenous people of Britain and Ireland by Edward Lluyd in 1707 - about the same time as all the bogus Druidic stuff was invented. Time to nail that one and find out who we really are.