Celtic Culture

In recent years the previously accepted theories about the Celts have undergone a revolution;  this follows the results of DNA tests applied by certain archeologists to their  examination  of  human  remains  in  the  most appropriate areas of Europe.

For about 300 years, historians had assumed that the Celts were a late Stone-Age race of farming people coming from Asia, through Anatolia and Romania to Austria and Switzerland, before occupying Belgium, France and Northern Spain. Finally, it was thought that they were driven farther west by the pressure of the Germanic races’ arrival, followed by the Slavs, and that most of the existing populations of Scotland, Ireland and Wales, as well as those of Galicia, Brittany, Cornwall, the Isle of Man and Cumbria, were the remnants of some great Celtic Race.