Celts a Mediterranean people?

[Ziveth]

No, Celts were an Indo-European people (blonde) who intermarried with Med/Neolithic populations upon entering Europe and spreading west.

Not all Indo-european people are blonde!

[Taiguaitiaoghyrmmumin]

Not all Indo-european people are blonde!

celts were probably mostly brown haired/ blonds

[Ziveth]

http://www.eupedia.com/forum/threads...-are-some-dark

Ignore the troll who started the thread, the proofs given by the other people in the thread that Celts are a Mediterranean people is very interesting. The idea is that rather than emerging from central Europe Celts originated in Iberia and spread from there. Lots of discussion about how Iberians are mostly Celtic both culturally and genetically, and Welsh and Irish are genetic cousins.

So Iberians, French (Gauls), North Italians, Irish and Welsh are all the same people maybe. The conclusion is that Celts are a Mediterranean people, unrelated to Germanics and Slavs before these groups mixed. I know for a fact the Romans described Welsh people as swarthy and as having curly black hair. Perhaps the Celts were a darker people originally. People associate Celts as very light people but the truth is perhaps they were originally a darker people. Also I heard red hair evolves from black hair.

Discuss

Interesting. I think celtiberians may have mixed with mediterranid people so they look darker, but in my opinion not all celtic people are/look mediterranid. In ancient times they were mostly in central europe.
http://www.summagallicana.it/lessico...0Hallstatt.JPG
The cities Hallstatt and La Tène were very important for celtic culture.
Later, they expanded they empire
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...846da4f83f.jpg
Spain, France and north Italy people have little genetic distance, so i agree, they are similar
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gn...ion-752360.jpg
British Isles (if there is included Irish) genetic distance is more "far away" from Italy. So i'm not sure Irish and north Italians are the same people. Anyway, i agree, Celts were not all blonde hair blue eyes etc. there were probably a lot of dark hair and dark eyes Celtic people.

[Ziveth]

celts were probably mostly brown haired/ blonds

Yes, there are also Indoeuropean people with brown hair and blue eyes, for example. Of course some are also blonds, but not all Indoeuropean are blonds.

[Anglojew]

Not all Indo-european people are blonde!

They were prior to admixture with Meds & others.

[Ziveth]

They were prior to admixture with Meds & others.

Without mixing with meds, some have light brown (not dark brown/black) hairs and blue eyes. Also in nordic countries not all people are blonde. Some have light brown hairs. For example Sweden Prime Minister has brown hair and light eyes.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/1/2017/02/1...18_634x355.jpg

[Anglojew]

Without mixing with meds, some have light brown (not dark brown/black) hairs and blue eyes. Also in nordic countries not all people are blonde. Some have light brown hairs. For example Sweden Prime Minister has brown hair and light eyes.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/1/2017/02/1...18_634x355.jpg

There was a pre-IE population in Scandinavia (Paleo-Atlantid) although it was mainly pushed to pockets esp. to Norway;



Pure ancient IE populations are blonde as we see from ancient mummies & genetic studies however Haplogroup R did admix with others from the very beginning eg http://www.nature.com/news/americas-...-roots-1.14213 including Mongoloids & Australoid-South Asians etc.

[BarcelonaAtlantis]

[brennus dux gallorum]

Your Celtic wannabism gives me cringe to be honest. Greeks have nothing to do with them, get real.

Just give me one reason for a turk to participate in a thread about Europeans, and even more to respond to the ignorance of this turk

For your information, yes celts apart from owing their own name to Greeks, Turkish dumb, they are related to South Europe in many ways, but that's non of your business, go to post in any thread about Kazakhstan and leave Europe alone with your ignorance and stupidity, I have better things to do than explaining a Turkish dumb the linguistic and archaeological evidence of celts and South Europe (in that case Greek) connection

[DarknessWin]

Celts are a mix of Med and Nordic

lets say 70% Med 30% Nord , in that range