That's true there is a lot of crossover, the differences we see are from groups like Scandinavians, Slavs and Celts that moved through the regions. I do agree that Germans especially continental Germans do have a core affinity.
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Davidski/Generalissimo says that Iron Age Celts (presumably of Central Europe) were 'very Northern European'. Also that the Celtic peoples of Northern Italy were French-like.
https://anthrogenica.com/showthread....l=1#post713577
Celts were spread throughout Europe, mainly in the British Isles, Northwestern Europe, and Central Europe. A lot of people don't know this (unless they're interested in ancient cultures), because the Romans destroyed most traces of Celtic cultures in mainland Europe. The Celts of the British Isles, specifically the Celtic tribes that are the ancestors of the modern Irish people, were the most successful in terms of keeping their culture intact, thus many uninformed people think only of the Irish when they hear the term "Celtic."
You might not know this but the largest concentration of celtic remains in Europe are in NW Spain (including Castilla), where castros (celtic villages), toponymia, and things like these still exist:
https://lascatedrales.com/blog/wp-co...anta-tecla.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/05/99...b494cb63fb.jpg
http://www.galiciaenfotos.com/wp-con...4/01-13495.jpg
Or this altar of sacrifices:
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8f4mpzARR...1600/ALTAR.jpg
Or petroglifos:
https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/me...s-de-mogor.jpg
The Romans were good at erasing old cultures.
We have tree theories abt the origin of Celts:
From East: Proto Celts are descendants of Urfield culture and the proto-celtic was born in Central Europe BA and was begin developed with the times (Hallsttat and La Tene)
From Center: Says that Celts come from BA France (aka Gauls) and expanded, not too much diferent from East theorie since both comes from Bell BEakers of Central Europe
From West: Celt culture was born since atlantic bronze age and was a language used by the West Atlantid ppl for trades, but that theorie dont explains why in the same time of when the celt culture was spread in Europe the ancestry from Urnfield iwas spread in all parts of Europe which were culturally celtic too, why Iberians from IA got Urnfield ancestry in the time that celtic trait appears in iberia? thats dont looks like a coincidence . .
after all, the early celts were very prob from Central Europe, descendants of Bell Beakers and clustering with Central Frenchs and Alpine Europe, so no they werent N. Europeans.
The average of samples from La tene, Hallsttat and Gauls all are abt 40% Yamnaya, the celts were kinda heterogenous but the average of yamnaya blood was abt 35% - 43%
https://pastebin.com/u9YNXWuY
https://i.imgur.com/Wot2Z6j.png
https://i.imgur.com/3Vn7vtZ.png
as u all can see, typicals Central Europeans, not Northern
Do you think original celts and germanics is probably same people with different cultures?