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Gallaecia

Mar 10, 2006, 19:18

I know those standing stones at Coruna, in northern Galicia; it is some sort of modern sculptural place at the Costa da Morte (Death Coast). The ancient real standing stones in Galicia are more modest, and the stone circles have all but disappeared, although a few fringe researchers claim the ancient 'corrals' for cattle to have started as neolithic ritual places.

Galicia struggled for hundreds of years to have their Celtic roots recognised within Iberia (still part and parcel of Galician nationalism) and yet, like everywhere else including the British Isles, Celtic is a word now avoided in archaeological studies at all costs these days. However, it is still pretty common to find it in tourist brochures.

The fact that the thousands of hillforts in NW Iberia had round houses unlike the rest of mainland Europe does not prove anything so far. A better word than Celtic has not been found. The extremely damp acid soil of Galicia has destroyed all corpses. Indoeuropean terms like Brig- etc probably all come from the earliest Bronze Age migrations far before the Celts arrive, some sort of proto-Celtic ancestors must have settled all over the place then lost touch with Europe, I guess the same was true in the British Isles and other parts which quickly became isolated thereby retaining their own genetic stock.

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GP

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