Annexus Quam wrote: I won't be using any four-letter words in this public forum!
No, I was only being deliberately cheeky, referring to using the k instead of the c in the word 'celtic' - as pointed out by my conversational partner to be relegated to some european football teams - and because the k word provides more 'depth' in its archaeological context, as in 'more ancestral', more related to the IE than what we believe to be the celts in their traditional popular guise. Also, and I think, quite rightly, the k word was used as such in the Modern Antiquarian all those years ago.
It's just a linguistic protocol so as to detach oneself from the general context of the word and/or to bring more ambiguity to its significance.
In other words, to use another c word, I haven't a clue.
Nae bither, as Drew would say...I think :-)
So, returning to where we were at a while back, there is no change then to the belief that at around 2400BC Great Britain saw an influx, be it gradual or rapid, of a 'race' of people of possibly mixed blood that were to live peacefully side by side with us and introduce us to higher cultivation skills and animal husbandry and were influential in setting about a monumental building programme?
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