Just for the record, the term Celt is almost meaningless.
It really means, "Everyone north of our civilized land."
The cultures that were so included had a tremendous variety of
languages, customs and so on.
A lot of the time we see, in books whose authors ought to know better, a
compilation of artifacts all labeled Celtic. So we have a helmet from
here, a cauldron from there, and so on. But in fact, this would be the
equivalent of saying "American Indians lived in tipis, carved totem
poles and had birch bark canoes," and meaning that this was one people,
not three extremely diferent and diverse cultures.
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Sincerely,
Greg Stafford
Issaries, Inc.
1942 Channing Way, #204
Berkeley, CA 94704
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