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On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:43:33 -0500, in sci.archaeology, deowll wrote:
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>"Doug Weller" <dweller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:piv6c15b6869ineikra2nskd50je9jvjpo@xxxxxxxxxx
>> On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:22:50 -0400, in sci.archaeology, VtSkier wrote:
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>>>Doug Weller wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 12:21:16 -0400, in sci.archaeology, VtSkier wrote:
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>>>>>Philip Deitiker wrote:
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>>>>>>"Alaca" <P.Alaca@xxxxxxx> says in
>>>>>>news:42c27ce7$0$35813$dbd41001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
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>>>>>>>Who is asking you for private mail?
>>>>>>>And what have Dutch 'celtic fields' to do
>>>>>>>with a mystery invasion attempt of
>>>>>>>Denmark by Julius Ceasar?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I have no idea what the mdm is refering to but there
>>>>>>are regions of Denmark that have shown to have celtic or druid
>>>>>>artefacts.
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>>>>>I started this a couple of hours ago, then the lights
>>>>>went out and I had to shut everything down, so this might
>>>>>be a bit out of date and someone else has said the same
>>>>>thing.
>>>>>
>>>>>I believe that the so called "bog people", of whom there
>>>>>are many in Denmark, were from a Celtic culture. This belief
>>>>>is supported by the fact that the "Lindow bodies" were
>>>>>similarly ritualy murdered in Britain, an area which had
>>>>>a predominantly Celtic culture at about the same time
>>>>>(100 BCE - 100 CE).
>>>>
>>>> This is a huge jump in logic.
>>>> LIndow Man may not have been ritually murdered, for a start:
>>>> http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=2146411507
>>>>
>>>> There is no such thing as 'bog people'.
>>>> You will find bog bodies all over, covering a huge time period:
>>>> http://geology.wcedu.pima.edu/~shubble/Bogpeople5.html
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>>>Of course, there is not such thing as "bog people" which is
>>>why I said, "so called" and put the term in parentheses.
>>>Yes, they cover a huge period of time, but the largest
>>>number were from 200 BCE to 200 or 300 CE, from the web
>>>page that you provided. Also, the greatest number found
>>>(not necessarily interred) seems also to be Denmark. Also
>>>from the web page you provided:
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>>>"The Lindow Man is 2,000 years old and was found in a peat bog.
>>>Experts think he was the victim of a druidic sacrifice."
>>>
>>>Yes, the earlier page you provided said that Lindow was
>>>simply beaten to death and that the "garrote" was probably
>>>just a decoration that he had warn in life.
>>>
>>>So if the "experts" don't know, how can we know?
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>> Exactly.
>>
>> There was no common culture or religion among the Celtic speaking peoples
>> (and remember there were 2 basic variants of Celtic).
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>There was no common culture or religion but they spoke the same language?
>That is odd because I find a great many similarities. I assumed that was why
>they called both of them Celtic rather than something else.
Celtic refers to a language. I've oversimplified, although we talk about
P Celtic and Q Celtic there were four groups in fact, I was thinking of
the two groups in the British Isles. Gaulish and its relatives,
Celtiberian, Brythonic, Goidelic. These are not 'the same language'.
What similarities are you thinking of?
Doug
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