Urnfield Proto-Celts of the Bronze Age

What I believe to be the most likely origin of the Celtic languages and culture, which satisfactorily explains its spread and diversity in development. It is largely in agreement with the traditional theory save for the timeline is pushed back significantly. The Iron-Age introduction is untenable.

this is likely the best site for detailed analysis of cultural and genetic migrations of Indo-European peoples.

I have taken some other images from an old book of mine from 1968, "The Penguin Atlas of Ancient History by Colin McEvedy" he was ahead of his time in postulating the early formation of European cultural and linguistic groupings. Given the information he had at the time it is very well done.

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[Miloun]

For travel fans: Unetice is a very neat little village a few miles north of Prague. Definitely worth giving a shot when visiting Czechia. You wont see any bronze age architecture anymore but the local microbrewery ballances that off.

[Survivethejive]

I have wondered, publicly on twitter, whether the custom of druids is something first unique to insular celts and later adopted by Gauls. The Romans talk of Britain as the druidic centre for Celtic culture, which is odd - why not the continent? It is possible Druidry was actually a pre-celtic custom from the British isles otherwise why wasn't it attested among the Galatians, balkan celts, italic celts etc?

[Survivethejive]

Good video. Unetice was itself as much derived from Corded ware as from eastern bell beaker people. The Dutch beaker folk are the main ones that went to Britain and ireland, and the maritime beakers also. No doubt some more easterly people went too since we have samples from stonehenge which plot more like German corded ware people than like Eastern bell beakers or dutch bell beakers. The presence of Cornish gold or tin anywhere doesn't prove a mutually intelligible language since cornish tin shows up in the bronze age levant even. I don't think North Bell Beakers would have that close culturally to Unetice people - but that Celtic languages arrived with the iron age and that the use of iron in europe was spread by and pioneered by the celts - which is why the germanic word for iron is a celtic loan word. Obviously I need more evidence to prove or disprove my theory, but we need to wait for that

[lowlandnobleman]

If only we could speak with the trees, imagine the stuff they’d tell us. Great video.

[anthonyhiggins]

You have NAILED IT. I have long thought there must have been an Indo-European spread to Ireland and other areas of the West before the Celtic languages came to dominate. The narrative you weave matches the evidence from many disciplines and is highly nuanced, seeming altogether reasonable. Bravo.

[possemis]

i always wondered if the battle of Tollense is the origin of the Germanic myths of the Vanir and Aesir war. the amount of people involved in that battle is enormous compared with the total population of northern europe at that time, a good chunk of the total population died in that battle. this battle was simply too big too not have left a trace of it in (proto)Germanic/Celtic legends and myths, especially in a warrior focused culture.

[elgranlugus]

Indo-Europeans taking control of Europe: Look at all these loot and EXP we got homies

[thegreenmage]

This is an extremely interesting video about a topic which needs a lot more attention and discussion.
I look forward to you revisiting it in the future, some sunny day.

[anotherelvis]

Nitpick: the name Danu is old. It means river in Scythian and it is a god in the vedas, so I guess that the name can have many origins.

[gregorybrian]

Recommend speeding up to 1.25 playback for best listening.

[Unconquered_Sun]

Interesting content man, keep up the good work.

The confirmation of the Italic peoples connection to the Tumulus/Urnfield people via DNA studies puts the relation of Rome to the Celts in a somewhat different light insofar as they were close cousins rather than total aliens to one another. While obviously they were different peoples by the time of their historic interaction and warfare with each other and Rome was responsible for the destruction of much of the Celtic world, in some sense the Roman conquest seems almost like a later reunification of a once common stock. This in turn is interesting to consider when observing Gallo-Roman religion and related cultural hybrids and the role the same culture would play after being absorbed by the Franks in essentially producing mainstream medieval Western civilization. Perhaps then the Frankish claims and later Western European self-image of being the direct successors to Roman antiquity is even more sensible with this added genetic and historic/linguistic connection.

[lamebubblesflysohigh]

In Slovakia Lusatian culture survived all the way to 300 BC when it formed what is called Puchov culture which was Lusatian substrate with significant Celtic admixture and in this form it existed all the way to cca 180 BC (turmoil caused by Marcomanni wars was too much and all their fortified cities were destroyed or abandoned).

[daisypeters]

Many greetings for send this amazing video and Such knowledge !!! I love so much to watch and learn with you, Conlaoch 's Well.

[LobertERee]

We were the Men of the Beaker. We was science.

[randyrichmond]

I always enjoy learning more about Celtic knowledge

[celtofcanaanesurix]

What if the urnfield were proto p-celts while the Bronze Age Atlantic were prot q-celts? Also I’ve heard that the Romans said the druids originated in Britain. If this were the case perhaps the native British bell beakers influenced the continental urnfields that way

[CelticAugur]

I like the skyrim music in the back very nice.

[anotherelvis]

Nice video. Note that you can only mine bronze and tin in a few places in Europe, so the countries without bronze would have to trade to get metal. This lead to an age with long scale trade.

[Bosi]

I live in the Netherlands in the province of Limburg. In The near where i live are those urn fields.
And it is from that age.
I loved your documentary👍👍😃😃

[Survivethejive]

When is the split of Goidelic and Brythonnic thought to have occurred?