Re: Lusitanian --Bell Beaker?

From: tgpedersen
Message: 58927
Date: 2008-05-29

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "indravayu" <sonno3@...> wrote:
>
> > by calling me lazy and suggesting I google Lauran Toorians and
> > Peter Schrijver along with "Kelten" and "Nederland".
> > So I googled them. So the answer is 'yes', after a fashion,
> > since you didn't suggest that in your original post.
>
> Yes, I am quite aware of what I posted...

In that case you are also aware that you didn't ask me to google
"Kelten" and "Nederland" in your original post, as you claimed.

> you know, having any kind of online discussion with you, Torsten,
> is a form of torture!

Maybe it's the nice guy in you struggling to get out?

> I am only bothering to engage in it this time because you
> originally made such an ill-informed statement about there being
> no evidence for Celts in the Netherlands.

Therte is no archaeological evidence of Celts in the Low Countries
apart from the Belgae in present Belgium and their Celticity is
disputed.

> The fact that you even had to look up Schrijver

Archive search
Schrijver Torsten 120 hits
Schrijver Gwinn 3 hits

> and Torrians

Toorians

> and were not already familiar with their work proves your
> ignorance in these matters.
>
>
>
> > > > Then I thought perhaps you had a particular reference in
> > > > mind, so I asked.
> > >
> > > I do.
> >
> > So are you going to give it to me?
>
> No - I gave you the authors' names and some keywords to
> investigate - look up their books and articles yourself!!
> I am not your personal research assistant!

Giving me references that you already have would make you my
personal research assistant? What is the matter with you?


> > > > > What is this Wikipedia article supposed to prove, by the
> > > > > way?
> > > >
> > > > We were talking geography. Look at the map.
> > >
> > > Not all Celtic people necessarily participated in the
> > > Hallstatt culture.
> > >
> > Erh, aha. Who are those non-Hallstatt Celts?
>
> Most of the western Celtic world existed outside of the primary
> Hallstatt zone.

Odd. Parts of a culture existed outside the influence of the
founding culture.


Torsten