> But as to inhumation practicing Celts involved with the Przeworsk culture and with Ariovistus' campaign see:
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> http://www.iaepan.edu.pl/archaeologia-polona/article/162
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> esp. section X at p. 146 and the notes.****
Quote from there (p. 30):
'Il semble que ce territoire fut peuplé, dans la seconde moitié du IIe siècle, par une nouvelle population. Mais probablement une partie des Celtes locaux y resta, ce que suggère le fait qu'au Ier avant n.è., et aussi plus tard, apparaissent des tombes à squelette qui indiquent une trace de la tradition religieuse celtique et qui, peut-être, contiennent les depouilles mortelles des descendants des Celtes.'
It sembles and suggères and appears probablement. Obviously pure guesswork.
Another quote:
'On peut donc présumer que c'est ici justement que la population de la civilization de Przeworsk adopta du substratum celtique son nom probablement celtique (Lugii).'
You probably saw what I think of the provenance of that name.
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/64400
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/64401
It probably originally meant (sense 1)) "the allies" or "the league", which is okay since it was made up of several tribes.
I'll add that the sense 1) "tell untruths" seems to be shared by Slavic, they must thus have shared the Marcomanni point of view of the actions of the Lugians.
The Baltic semantics seems more to belong with sense 2).
You decide how Celtic that is. The argument of the Lugi in Scotland could equally well apply to Venetic/Lusatian.
Come to think of it, the Saami "tell, say, speak one's mind" for Finno-Ugric *luke- could, if interpreted as "stating as one's intention" be considered as a semantic pre-stage to "swearing loyalty"
Torsten