A look at the origins of celtic languages and peoples. A bit of a confusing narrative, I suppose because it is hard to pin anything down definitely in such remote periods. The book does confirm the link between the bell beaker people/culture and the ancient celts. Also their link with metal working, as you the the bell beaker culture jump from one locale to another, each locale a source of minerals for iron working in particular, rather than cover an entire large home area. There does seem to be an original movement from the east, perhaps north of the Balkans to a homeland around Hallstat in southern Germany, but then the culture pops up all over Europe, even down into Italy at times. There also seems to be some later movement from Spain back towards the original homeland. Apart from that, it is hard to really get anything clearer from this book.
One surprising thing is that the genetic sequence of the European copper age population influx seems to originate around Lake Baikal in Siberia. This genetic group is also related to North American native populations that seem to have spread across Beringia around the same time.
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