From: tgpedersen
Message: 64934
Date: 2009-08-23
>No, my point was that in order to overcome the obstacle I had met in answering Andrew's question of finding a common ground for the NWB, Illyrian and Etruscan occurrences of the same names, namely that the latest such common layer would be Urnfield/Lusatian, which is approx. 700 years too early, I had to find a way of separating out the Hallstatt culture from the image of 'Celticity' from Ireland to Austria. I can't say that those names are in the LaTènian language, since supposedly there is no such language, but the distribution matches.
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
>
> > I was pointing out that whatever term you use, you can't use it
> > both of the relict languages on the British Isles and in Brittany
> > and of the Hallstatt culture, which was Oppenheimer's point.
>
> Surely you can, if you accept that not all Celts shared the
> Hallstatt culture. Of course, one may doubt that the Hallstatt
> culture was restricted to Celts - which I suspect is your point.