Re: Lusitanian --Bell Beaker?

From: indravayu
Message: 58930
Date: 2008-05-29

> > > 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 are unreal...my second post in this thread, the FIRST one in
which I suggested that you conduct your own search on Toorians and
Schrijver, I also told you to add the keywords "kelten"
and "nederland":
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/58899

When I said "original" I was referring to this post.

Are we done arguing ridiculous semantics now?


> > 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 originally made such an ill-informed statement about there being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.

You just don't know what you're talking about - but hey, don't let
that stop you from making a fool of yourself in a public forum!


> > > 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.

Join us in the 21st century, Torsten...few Celticists now believe
that Hallstatt was anything like a "founding culture"!

- Chris Gwinn