Celts & Cimmerians

Robert W. Ehrich
Some Indo-European Speaking Groups of the Middle Danube and the
Balkans: Their Boundaries as Related to Cultural Geography Through
Time
in
Cardona, Hoenigswald, Senn (eds.)
Indo-European and Indo-Europeans
p. 227

"
Köszegi (1960:181) ['s] ... rough datings [of the West-Hungarian
sequence] as modified by S. Foltinyi (personal information) are:

Surviving Tumulus Culture I (Bronze Age D) begins at about 1250 B.C.
Surviving Tumulus Culture II (Hallstatt A1) begins 1200/1150
Vál I (Hallstatt A2) begins 1100/1050
Vál II (Hallstatt B) = 950/900 - 750/700
True Iron Age (Hallstatt C) = 750/700-600
Hallstatt D = 600 - 450/400

Thraco-Cimmerian elements appear in Halstatt C, Scythian in Hallstatt
D.
"

Apparently then some Cimmerians might have passed by the Celts. And
they might have picked their language before moving on to Northern
Europe.

Torsten