Wathing history of England on prime video. He states easiest way to insult those in the British Isles, who not English, is to lump thee Scots, Celts and Welsh into only the English.
Welsh > Celts > Scots and English
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@ebuc
Britain's are a mongrel race.
Pretty much a global phenomena
Though a lot of people choose to jump on and off the human timeline when and where it suits them.
So some like to think that they are special, because they also think that they do special things in special places.
Pretty much common global misconceptions.
Me:
I'm primarily Earthling and then British, and inhabit a small demarcated area of the globe known as Wales or Cymru.
Functionally I'm just about the same as any other Earthling of the species Homo Sapiens.
And also physically similar in a lot of ways to not just other Mammalia but also all other organic living structures.
One Earth
One common ancestor.
Probably.
Britain rules the waves, waves the rules.
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@zedvictor4
Britain's are a mongrel race.
Yeah, that is also what this teacher makes clear in this History of England vid.
Instead of England or British Isles he points out that in his lecture he will more often reference Land of the Celts or something like that. The Celt pagans were there for thousand of years prior to England.
I saw another program about Stonehenge and how the Pagans cremated there dead and buried them in large pit that went around Stonehenge. Then some years --500 yrs later--- these individual graves of a person with glittery metal buried with them. This was new introduction of peoples from European continent, tho it is not clear exactly who and exactly where these people were originally from.
The other thing I learned from this other program about Stonehenge, was that there were these other festival gathering places just short distance away, with pits of hog bones --and maybe other animals-- but what they discovered from the hog bone genetics, was that these hogs varied greatly and meant they were brought from all over the British isles to for these festivals near Stonehenge.
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@Best.Korea
LOL.
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@ebuc
Celtism is something of a myth.
The people in question are thought to have been of Central European origin. As were their Pigs.
Though ancient Central Europeans would share a common ancestry with every other homo-sapiens that migrated to the four corners of the globe.
Not that a globe is big on corners.
And for sure, old British pagans did ritualistic stuff that they imagined would be of some metaphysical significance.
And for sure also, archaeologists dig up stuff and speculate about what ancient pagans might have speculated about.
And people went to a lot of trouble to lug 25 ton stones from Pembrokeshire to Wiltshire.
Why?
We can only speculate.
And they brought their diner with them.
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@zedvictor4
Though ancient Central Europeans would share a common ancestry with every other homo-sapiens that migrated to the four corners of the globe.
Yeah of course Celts Welsh etc came from elsewhere { most likely is of course is European descent }. I imagine there is plenty of genetic data on that by now.
And for sure, old British pagans did ritualistic stuff that they imagined would be of some metaphysical significance.
Cremating their dead around in pits around Stonehenge,--- as I think some other cultures also have also cremated their dead-- may actually stem from intuitive concern of some contagions { bad spirits } from dead flesh,---even tho they of course had no way of knowing of bacteria contagions viruses and flys carry etc--- yet by burning they may have felt was least chance of being affected in anyway be the dead spirits.
Why? We can only speculate. And they brought their diner with them.
Hogs and pigs certainly were a mainstay of many cultures of olden day.
Take note this below is about burials at stonehenge not cremations, that, may have been early, if the info I saw on documentary some years back was correct.
..." Most know Stonehenge for its circle of towering, seemingly immovable monoliths, but perhaps lesser known is that during the site’s early days, it mainly functioned as a cemetery. Thousands of years after the first interments at Stonehenge, the dead are finally revealing their secrets—and, according to a new study published in Scientific Reports, the biggest revelation is that many of those buried at the site originally came from some 140 miles away in western Wales.
...However, the remains, which date to about 3000 through 2500 B.C.E, appear to coincide with the estimated time period of the monument’s early construction.
“The earliest dates are tantalizingly close to the date we believe the bluestones arrived, and though we cannot prove they are the bones of the people who brought them, there must at least be a relationship,” co-author John Pouncett tells Kennedy.
“The earliest dates are tantalizingly close to the date we believe the bluestones arrived, and though we cannot prove they are the bones of the people who brought them, there must at least be a relationship,” co-author John Pouncett tells Kennedy.