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The first\ancient inhabitants might not have been of Mediterranean origin. It does not mean that modern Portuguese inhabitants aren't.
[QUOTE=Sebastianus Rex;4494753]There's no equivocation. The five\six Lusitanian inscriptions found seem to connect Lusitanian language with ancient Italic-Celtic languages. Some historians also believe that the closest relatives to the Lusitanians were the Lusones, who are also believed to have migrated to Iberia from where Switzerland is nowadays or even from Pannonia.
I've never read such theory, I believe there's an equivocation there. Most scholars believe that Lusitanians inhabited the western Iberian Peninsula since the neolithic.
They later mixed and absorbed several waves of Celtic tribes migrations during the Hallstatt culture period/Iron Age (circa 800-600 BC), it is those Celtic tribes who are believed to have origin in the Alpine/Danubian region.
Lusitanians (who later mixed with Celts of the Hallstatt culture) ended up dominating most of the present Portuguese territory, don't know if all those ancient tribes shared a common origin. Without more crania evidence we enter the field of pure speculation.
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