What some ancient Celts eat

[Dacul]

https://www.unibas.ch/en/Research/Un...Celts-eat.html

Recent research by Basel archaeologists confirms that the ancient Celts who once settled on what would later become the site of the city’s gasworks (their settlement was in area now known as Basel-Gasfabrik) lived mainly on cereals such as barley, emmer and free-threshing wheat. Parts of the population also ate millet. Beef, pork, mutton, goat meat and dairy products played a minor role in everyone’s diet, and chicken, eggs, salmon and dog meat were occasional additions.
These are the results of analyses that researchers at the Integrative Prehistory and Archaeological Science (IPAS) and the Department of Ancient Civilizations of the University of Basel, along with German colleagues, performed on excavation finds from the ancient Celtic settlement, which existed on the bank of the river Rhine roughly from 150 to 80 BC.
[FONT=&amp]The research was undertaken together with the Archäologische Bodenforschung Basel-Stadt as part of a Sinergia project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). The researchers examined human skeletal remains from the two associated burial grounds and isolated skulls and bones found in the settlement itself. The Iron Age settlers’ food habits were reconstructed based on carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses of 90 people, 48 animals and seven grain samples as well as zooarchaeological and paleoethnobotanical analyses. No significant differences were found between men’s and women’s diets. Children were breastfed until the age of eighteen months to four years.
The researchers saw hardly any evidence of dietary lifestyles restricted to particular groups. Also, unlike some Celtic finds from the same period, no correlation was found between food habits and particular burial practices or contexts. Further studies are planned to investigate the social mechanisms behind the complex burial customs at the Basel-Gasfabrik site."

[Dacul]

These were some Celtic ethnicities from Switzerland.

[Daco Celtic]

What about my favorite, oatmeal?

[Dacul]

Is not mentioned that they were eating oats, but emmer and barley.
Maybe those Celts from South Germany also ate plenty of emmer and this is how South Germany got some wheat beer.
Seems that these Celts were quite different from the Celts from Britain and Ireland.

[Daco Celtic]

Is not mentioned that they were eating oats, but emmer and barley.
Maybe those Celts from South Germany also ate plenty of emmer and this is how South Germany got some wheat beer.
Seems that these Celts were quite different from the Celts from Britain and Ireland.

Yes, to some degree they were different but they probably had the same distant bell beaker roots. That is why I think I'll start using the term "Celtic speaking people" rather than "Celt" because too many people think Celts were a race of people rather than a language and culture made up of somewhat different groups. Anyway, I know the people of Scotland and Ireland had a diet high in oats because the climate was too humid to grow good wheat (mildew problems). This may be true to some degree in England as well.