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gorseddphungus

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Cup and rings

Mar 12, 2006, 09:49

Coincidences in rock art does not necessarily imply genetic links. Think that later on in history the 'supposed' Celtic languages (this time with capital C) that some claim were spoken in many parts of Iberia by the Iberians or in Ireland by the Irish were spoken by genetically non-IE populations (ie indigeneous non-Celtic ones), it would mean that, like the hindu, they were still speaking a foreign language later into history. It may have been a sort of lingua franca while the lesser native languages went on in the dark (at home, like nowadays), who knows.

I also dont believe that the same rock art means the same populations, but it suggests a strong idea of cultural contacts during the late neolithic and early bronze, a time when possible atlantic trade started on a continental scale. It is for me very distinctive that all of the rock art in Iberia was completely different at the time (although, like all RA, it retained similarites of course). especially important if you consider that Iberia is half Mediterranean (the well known side to the British researcher) and half Atlantic (the unknown side), rather isolated from the rest of Spain.

Not only that, in all of Galicia, cup and rings only concentrate in a VERY precise patch of land along the fiords in the west, and not in eastern galicia, which is more mountainous and isolated.

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