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   XPost: soc.culture.irish, alt.history.british, soc.culture.british   
   XPost: soc.culture.welsh   
   From: blackusenet@gmail.com   
      
   On 12/07/11 10:09, Surreyman wrote:   
   > On Jul 11, 11:37 am, William Black  wrote:   
   >> On 11/07/11 09:02, David H Singanas wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Do you reckon the Picts arrived before the Celts ?   
   >>   
   >> The last thing I read about the Celts said that they're weren't an   
   >> ethnicity but a very popular culture,  something like American culture   
   >> is today, and there's no such thing as actual 'Celts'.   
      
   >   
   > Well, must admit I don't know much about the science of it.   
   > But there's the whole linguistic thing for a start - although that   
   > could of course be regional irrespective of 'race'.   
   > However, there have to be genes playing around somewhere - there are   
   > very distinctive body/facial shapes present that are regarded as Welsh   
   > (or whatever) v. Anglo-Saxon, Norman etc.   
      
   I think it was an article about the 'genes thing' I was reading.   
      
   It seems there's no 'Celtic' DNA.   
      
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