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   XPost: soc.culture.scottish, soc.culture.irish, soc.culture.british   
   XPost: alt.religion.druid   
   From: nospams@least.invalid   
      
   Akins of that Ilk wrote:   
   > On May 11, 2:42 pm, "1X2Willows" wrote:   
   >> Akins of that Ilk wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> It is obvious from the huge scale of the megalitic monuments found   
   >>> in Britain, Ireland and in the parts of Europe that were anciently   
   >>> a part of Gaul, that building these monuments required a great deal   
   >>> of social organization, in other words, it was a group effort.   
   >>   
   >> yes?   
   >>   
   >> Keep in mind however these sites *became* part of Gaul only millennia   
   >> later. There was no "Gaul" when they were built. Not even close.   
   >> Let's not allow modernist anachronism get in the way of sound and   
   >> plausible history.   
   >   
   > Quite right, there was no Gaul then because the Gallic tribes and   
   > their La Tene culture hadn't arrived yet from Easter Europe (Scythia).   
   > Western Europe was still inhabited by the indigenous peoples native to   
   > that region, the people whose descendants in later times were known to   
   > the ancient Greeks as the "Keltoi" and to the Romans as the "Celtae".   
      
   I have no idea what they would have called my ancestors as my ancestral   
   home town of Egolzwil was founded somewhere in the early Neolithic long   
   before even Greeks and Romans became their own ethnicity, if you will.   
      
   This La Tene culture you mention wasn't an import at all, but already an   
   amalgamate of local and foreign influences on the shores of lake Neuchâtel.   
      
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