Europeans are terrified of anything that appears anything like nationalism and for good reason, two horrific world wars. However,trying to malign or just plain trying to convince(especially when you do not get every fact correctly) that they have no right to their self identity is just one way of driving most anyone into a more nationalistic corner.Everyone has a right to both love and respect their ancestors and themselves.
This documentary as a DVD is currently not available and I think it was lucky they even listed it. Reading the comments maybe that's not such a bad thing. I enjoyed the aerial (drone?) shots of prehistoric places I had not seen before. Something, for me, redeeming. Cannot jam the entire history of the Celts into less than 51 minutes and please everyone. Thanks for uploading, Pobednik1985.
Thank you for this very informative video about the Celts, I had been searching for something like this. The information is detailed and gives you a good picture as to how they were.
Hola hoy el legado de los Celtos Ibero es tremendo. Los Celtos Ibero controlan el mundo. Cuba controlada po Raul Castro, Mariela Castro, Celtic Ibero Americano. Saludos Iberos
Take Newgrange as an example , its construction was completed by 3500 BC that was long before the Celts arrived in Ireland. Even in our own mythology we don't claim to have built any megalithic structure. Even the term Celtic is very debatable there's no people ever who identified with this name.
"Celtic" is a linguistic category. Those peoples never called themselves "Celts" at any tribal level, but "Celton" is a well known term across Celtic lands for brave individuals out on manhood journeys, or Celtic mercenaries abroad. A Celton was principally a warrior, and the name stuck as a term for their people as used by non-Celts, like the Romans and Greeks.
A term for an ethnic group or racial group is often like that. Similarly, someone standing in a forest in Iberia 2000 years ago didn't have any understanding of where they were on a map. The Celts, like the American Indian tribes, were a loose confederation of linguistically related people groups, some more related to others, but clearly that which we consider modern day Celts (Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, etc) most likely come from what is today Northern Spain and Portugal.
People only associate celts with language, but forget about culture or dna For example, Celts were pretty much in a bigger part of Europe than what these documentaries show - The celtic people are said to be original from Hallstatt, Austria (c. 800-450 BC). - From there, they spread to the British Isles, France and the Low Countries (Gauls), Bohemia, Poland and much of Central Europe, the Iberian Peninsula and northern Italy and central Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) The Insular Celts retained their language, while the other Celts became romanized (language shift to Vulgar Latin) Celtic Nations: Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man, and Brittany (France) Other coutries with Celtic history (but that don't have a Celtic language anymore): - Northern Italy (Cisalpine Gauls) - France and Low Countries (Gauls) - Iberian Peninsula (Portugal and central Spain (Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria)) (Celtiberians, Celtici, Lusitanians, Vetonnes, Vaccean ) - Belgrade, Serbia (Scordisci tribe) - Thrace (Serdi tribe, located in Serdika, Bulgaria) - Anatolia (Galatians tribe, located in modern-day Turkey) - Bohemia (Boii tribe) (the Boii were in Bohemia, Bologna, Poland, Slovakia, and possibly in Bavaria)
@@crucemsanctamsubiitallelui3664 The Druids / Celts followed practices like idol worship, worship of multiple gods, food offerings in worship, philosophy of non destruction of soul, belief in rebirth after death, worship of ancestors, etc. Julius Caesar, while describing them, mentions that they were experts in Religion, Philosophy and Astronomy, and they were doing research in, debating and interpreting, those fields. This is similar to the way Upanishads, Hindu scriptures were formed through debates, discussions and interpretation of Vedas. *The Druids chanted something similar to Vedas. Vedas were not written, but orally transmitted. Similarly the Druids did not keep a written record of the chanting. They did not read out from books. Those who chanted Vedas were under strict regulations and disciplines; the Druids also followed strict codes of conduct. Like this, the Druids can be compared to Indian priests who follow Vedic tradition in many ways.*
The Druids / Celts followed practices like idol worship, worship of multiple gods, food offerings in worship, philosophy of non destruction of soul, belief in rebirth after death, worship of ancestors, etc. Julius Caesar, while describing them, mentions that they were experts in Religion, Philosophy and Astronomy, and they were doing research in, debating and interpreting, those fields. This is similar to the way Upanishads, Hindu scriptures were formed through debates, discussions and interpretation of Vedas. *The Druids chanted something similar to Vedas. Vedas were not written, but orally transmitted. Similarly the Druids did not keep a written record of the chanting. They did not read out from books. Those who chanted Vedas were under strict regulations and disciplines; the Druids also followed strict codes of conduct. Like this, the Druids can be compared to Indian priests who follow Vedic tradition in many ways.*
@@bvshenoy7259 The galatians were from celtic stock. Here a testimony from that time about the heathens explaining the pagan gods. www.newadvent.org/fathers/2801.htm The guy called Ceaser once said. The Druids are in charge of all religious matters, superintending public and private sacrifices, and explaining superstitions. A large crowd of young men, who flock to them for schooling, hold the Druids in great respect. For they have opinions to give on almost all disputes involving tribes or individuals, and if any crime is committed, any murder done, or if there is contention about a will or the boundaries of some property, they are the people who investigate the matter and establish rewards and punishments. Any individual or community that refuses to abide by their decision is excluded from the sacrifices, which is held to be the most serious punishment possible. Those thus excommunicated are viewed as impious criminals, they are deserted by their friends and no one will visit them or talk to them to avoid the risk of contagion from them. They are deprived of all rights in court, and they forfeit all claim to honors. There is ONE ARCH-DRUID of supreme power. On his death, he is succeeded either by someone outstanding among his fellows, or, if there are several of equal caliber, the decision is reached by a vote of all the Druids, and the election is sometimes managed by force. Anyone with a grievance attends and obeys the decisions and judgments which the Druids give. Any idea where you'll find that stucture today??
Uh, I'm Breton (and French), and to say that the French are Germanic, because they've been invaded by the Franks, is simplistic and stupid. Like thinking that by invading mexico, the conquistadors turned the Aztecs into Spaniards...
@@CarlosSanchez-my7zg Ah, well, the north of France was before the fall of the Roman Empire and the conquest of the Franks... Germanic? Are you talking about Germans in an ethnic, sociological or cultural sense? The Germanic tribes developed geographically in Europe, during the last millennium BC, at the expense of the Celts, certainly. But they never got beyond Belgium and the Rhine in the east of France in a sustainable way before Clovis. And I know the difference between a simplistic generic name to name a set of populations geographically according to the times ... thank you.
Northern Portugal was also part of Gallaecia, until it was split up and joined to modern day Portugal, the Portuguese language also was born from old Galician!
As well as Northern Portugal and Galicia, Asturias, cantabria, castilla Leon, have many fine castro examples, the basques also, parts of castilla Leon & asturias were also part of old Gallaecia.
It’s funny how most of Neolithic reenactments are so hippy like, wild beards, dreadlock hairstyles etc... why wouldn’t Neolithic people care about slick hairstyles just as we do, specially among women and men in the higher hierarchy.
In the bronze age many Celts were described by the Roman historians as using lime salt on their hair to slick it back and stiffen it like a horse mane, and there are many other reasons people used things in their hairs for various reasons, either style or practical purposes. Dreaded hair is not uncommon for people with lack of other ways to manage it, especially thin hair since it is so easy to get tangled otherwise. It has little to do with your modern conception of "hippy". Neolithic people would have less access to sharp tools of the form that makes it easier to cut hair.
The notion of the Celts as a distinct group is largely a modern political construct. A DNA study of Britons published in the journal ‘Nature’ has shown that genetically there is not a unique Celtic group of people. According to the data, those of Celtic ancestry in Scotland and Cornwall are more similar to the English than they are to other Celtic groups. The study describes distinct genetic differences across the UK, which reflect regional rather than national identities. And it shows that the invading Anglo Saxons did not wipe out the Britons of 1,500 years ago, but mixed with them. Prof Peter Donnelly who co-led the study, said: "I had assumed at the very early stages of the project that there was going to be this uniform Celtic fringe extending from Cornwall through to Wales into Scotland. This has very definitely not been the case. We did not find a single genetic group corresponding to the Celtic traditions in the western fringes of Britain “ The study did find that people in the north of England are genetically more similar to people in Scotland than they are to those in the south of England. It also finds that people in North and South Wales are more different from each other than the English are from the Scots; and that there are two genetic groupings in Northern Ireland. Given the far larger population of England when compared to the other British Isles nations, it is pretty well a certainty that England contains the largest population with Celtic DNA, at least in the British isles, and probably in the entire world. I know this tends to blow a hole in the popular narrative of Celtic distinctness from the English, but there it is.
liar liarliar the Celts of lower Germany had all the markings and trappings of the culture, and again, were not a distinctly genetic set either. They were just Germans. To me, this just makes the mystery more interesting.
Yes, the Celts is a broad brush generic label for many, many distinct groups that mostly did not share language, religion, or culture. Take the kingdom of Ulster and the 4 clans that went on to form the Dalriadan kingdom of Western Scotland, the isles, highlands, and coastal lands. They were called the Gaels, and their language is still the same Gaelic language shared on both sides of the Irish Sea today. These people, my ancestors, with the picts and other tribes, went on to form the kingdom of Alba, which went on to become Scotland, But they are not the same people genetically, that make up the majority of Great Britain and Ireland, and also had a lot of Norse influence genetically as well, as much of the population of Great Britain had heavy influence from different settlers and invaders: the Angles, Jutes, Saxons, Viking groups from Scandinavia had settled in different area, but sometimes intermixed, such as in Northumbria, the Dane Law, East Anglia, Mercia, and the Saxon Kingdoms. The Gaels shared the same Q-Celtic language group with people from Galicia, where the Gaels came from originally, based on genetics and their language group. The Welsh and Picts spoke a different form of the same language group, called P-Celtic. Linguistics shows that people who share the same language groups, were closer genetically, but not always culturally, as migration and settlement in different environments with different cultures and religions, generally reshapes the culture of migrating groups.
Speaking about genetics when trying to determine some sort of celticity is rather odd. Celtic is a term for people that share a culture defined as celtic and speak a language from the celtic language group. With that said there is a (especially one y-dna haplogroup) that is more frequent along the european atlantic coast, but that doesn't say (at all) that it is a "celtic gene" since celtic people were spread a lot further than that, in centraleurope even as far as Galatia (present day anatolia).
They were soo advanced, they didnt even have a cure for a minor infection. Quit with the more advanced stuff than us now bs. They still died really young, and usually from preventable diseases. More interesting than modern times maybe, but not more advanced.
What do you mean by that? ua-cam.com/video/i2azTHF8wBI/v-deo.html Roman conquest of Iberia ua-cam.com/video/WlzRQtMPmn4/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/uuBR_zj2ESs/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/Re-pLxF3m-Q/v-deo.html
The megaliths are pre-Indo-European for sure, but the Castro culture spoken of in this documentary was in fact Celtic, that is linguistically and culturally Celtic.
Awesome educational video! Beautiful imagery! Thanks 4 sharing
Europeans are terrified of anything that appears anything like nationalism and for good reason, two horrific world wars. However,trying to malign or just plain trying to convince(especially when you do not get every fact correctly) that they have no right to their self identity is just one way of driving most anyone into a more nationalistic corner.Everyone has a right to both love and respect their ancestors and themselves.
This documentary as a DVD is currently not available and I think it was lucky they even listed it. Reading the comments maybe that's not such a bad thing. I enjoyed the aerial (drone?) shots of prehistoric places I had not seen before. Something, for me, redeeming. Cannot jam the entire history of the Celts into less than 51 minutes and please everyone.
Thanks for uploading, Pobednik1985.
Citânia de Briteiros is in Portugal, not in Galicia!!
A long legendary timeline
Thank you for this very informative video about the Celts, I had been searching for something like this. The information is detailed and gives you a good picture as to how they were.
Great vid. but they didn't mention about cannibalism, it was part of celtic culture to eat human flesh.
Half that fort and more because i don't think they would build it right to the cliff edge is gone in 1500 years. Shows the power of the sea.
Google Translate indicates the subtitles are Croatian.
Right because google always fails to distinguish Serbian and Croatian
Fantastic, thanks!
How dare u not mention Wales
How dare you
I believe they also gathered the wild edibles along with farming
Hola hoy el legado de los Celtos Ibero es tremendo. Los Celtos Ibero controlan el mundo. Cuba controlada po Raul Castro, Mariela Castro, Celtic Ibero Americano. Saludos Iberos
lo mismo Pinochet
Take Newgrange as an example , its construction was completed by 3500 BC that was long before the Celts arrived in Ireland. Even in our own mythology we don't claim to have built any megalithic structure. Even the term Celtic is very debatable there's no people ever who identified with this name.
"Celtic" is a linguistic category. Those peoples never called themselves "Celts" at any tribal level, but "Celton" is a well known term across Celtic lands for brave individuals out on manhood journeys, or Celtic mercenaries abroad. A Celton was principally a warrior, and the name stuck as a term for their people as used by non-Celts, like the Romans and Greeks.
A term for an ethnic group or racial group is often like that. Similarly, someone standing in a forest in Iberia 2000 years ago didn't have any understanding of where they were on a map. The Celts, like the American Indian tribes, were a loose confederation of linguistically related people groups, some more related to others, but clearly that which we consider modern day Celts (Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, etc) most likely come from what is today Northern Spain and Portugal.
People only associate celts with language, but forget about culture or dna
For example, Celts were pretty much in a bigger part of Europe than what these documentaries show
- The celtic people are said to be original from Hallstatt, Austria (c. 800-450 BC).
- From there, they spread to the British Isles, France and the Low Countries (Gauls), Bohemia, Poland and much of Central Europe, the Iberian Peninsula and northern Italy and central Anatolia (modern-day Turkey)
The Insular Celts retained their language, while the other Celts became romanized (language shift to Vulgar Latin)
Celtic Nations:
Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man, and Brittany (France)
Other coutries with Celtic history (but that don't have a Celtic language anymore):
- Northern Italy (Cisalpine Gauls)
- France and Low Countries (Gauls)
- Iberian Peninsula (Portugal and central Spain (Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria)) (Celtiberians, Celtici, Lusitanians, Vetonnes, Vaccean )
- Belgrade, Serbia (Scordisci tribe)
- Thrace (Serdi tribe, located in Serdika, Bulgaria)
- Anatolia (Galatians tribe, located in modern-day Turkey)
- Bohemia (Boii tribe) (the Boii were in Bohemia, Bologna, Poland, Slovakia, and possibly in Bavaria)
GALileans, the disciples of Jesus were all GALileans.
@@crucemsanctamsubiitallelui3664 The Druids / Celts followed practices like idol worship, worship of multiple gods, food offerings in worship, philosophy of non destruction of soul, belief in rebirth after death, worship of ancestors, etc. Julius Caesar, while describing them, mentions that they were experts in Religion, Philosophy and Astronomy, and they were doing research in, debating and interpreting, those fields.
This is similar to the way Upanishads, Hindu scriptures were formed through debates, discussions and interpretation of Vedas. *The Druids chanted something similar to Vedas. Vedas were not written, but orally transmitted. Similarly the Druids did not keep a written record of the chanting. They did not read out from books. Those who chanted Vedas were under strict regulations and disciplines; the Druids also followed strict codes of conduct. Like this, the Druids can be compared to Indian priests who follow Vedic tradition in many ways.*
The Druids / Celts followed practices like idol worship, worship of multiple gods, food offerings in worship, philosophy of non destruction of soul, belief in rebirth after death, worship of ancestors, etc. Julius Caesar, while describing them, mentions that they were experts in Religion, Philosophy and Astronomy, and they were doing research in, debating and interpreting, those fields.
This is similar to the way Upanishads, Hindu scriptures were formed through debates, discussions and interpretation of Vedas. *The Druids chanted something similar to Vedas. Vedas were not written, but orally transmitted. Similarly the Druids did not keep a written record of the chanting. They did not read out from books. Those who chanted Vedas were under strict regulations and disciplines; the Druids also followed strict codes of conduct. Like this, the Druids can be compared to Indian priests who follow Vedic tradition in many ways.*
@@bvshenoy7259 The galatians were from celtic stock.
Here a testimony from that time about the heathens explaining the pagan gods. www.newadvent.org/fathers/2801.htm
The guy called Ceaser once said.
The Druids are in charge of all religious matters, superintending public and private sacrifices, and explaining superstitions. A large crowd of young men, who flock to them for schooling, hold the Druids in great respect. For they have opinions to give on almost all disputes involving tribes or individuals, and if any crime is committed, any murder done, or if there is contention about a will or the boundaries of some property, they are the people who investigate the matter and establish rewards and punishments. Any individual or community that refuses to abide by their decision is excluded from the sacrifices, which is held to be the most serious punishment possible. Those thus excommunicated are viewed as impious criminals, they are deserted by their friends and no one will visit them or talk to them to avoid the risk of contagion from them. They are deprived of all rights in court, and they forfeit all claim to honors.
There is ONE ARCH-DRUID of supreme power. On his death, he is succeeded either by someone outstanding among his fellows, or, if there are several of equal caliber, the decision is reached by a vote of all the Druids, and the election is sometimes managed by force. Anyone with a grievance attends and obeys the decisions and judgments which the Druids give.
Any idea where you'll find that stucture today??
Where?
Uh, I'm Breton (and French), and to say that the French are Germanic, because they've been invaded by the Franks, is simplistic and stupid. Like thinking that by invading mexico, the conquistadors turned the Aztecs into Spaniards...
Actually, they were germanic because the germanoc tribes lived there. Germanic doesnt mean modern german.
@@CarlosSanchez-my7zg Ah, well, the north of France was before the fall of the Roman Empire and the conquest of the Franks... Germanic?
Are you talking about Germans in an ethnic, sociological or cultural sense?
The Germanic tribes developed geographically in Europe, during the last millennium BC, at the expense of the Celts, certainly. But they never got beyond Belgium and the Rhine in the east of France in a sustainable way before Clovis.
And I know the difference between a simplistic generic name to name a set of populations geographically according to the times ... thank you.
Skips the Picts, skips the distinction of neolithic, megalithic, and indo-european. No good information in this video.
the north of portugal has more archaeological sites of the castro culture than spain, but you wouldn't know that watching this vid
Northern Portugal was also part of Gallaecia, until it was split up and joined to modern day Portugal, the Portuguese language also was born from old Galician!
As well as Northern Portugal and Galicia, Asturias, cantabria, castilla Leon, have many fine castro examples, the basques also, parts of castilla Leon & asturias were also part of old Gallaecia.
@@DonPadre19 Portuguese is more Latin than anything else
@@johnnypickles5256 We still have some celtic traditions, specially in the North of Portugal
@@tatianaoliveira2191 I'm sure, we all do in some levels
It’s funny how most of Neolithic reenactments are so hippy like, wild beards, dreadlock hairstyles etc... why wouldn’t Neolithic people care about slick hairstyles just as we do, specially among women and men in the higher hierarchy.
Why wouldn't they in the 70's?
We're only guessing as to grooming habits. What would we do without mirrors, combs, brushes, razors or scissors?
In the bronze age many Celts were described by the Roman historians as using lime salt on their hair to slick it back and stiffen it like a horse mane, and there are many other reasons people used things in their hairs for various reasons, either style or practical purposes. Dreaded hair is not uncommon for people with lack of other ways to manage it, especially thin hair since it is so easy to get tangled otherwise. It has little to do with your modern conception of "hippy". Neolithic people would have less access to sharp tools of the form that makes it easier to cut hair.
celts didnt get to spain until iron age so all the first half has nothing to do with celts
The notion of the Celts as a distinct group is largely a modern political construct. A DNA study of Britons published in the journal ‘Nature’ has shown that genetically there is not a unique Celtic group of people. According to the data, those of Celtic ancestry in Scotland and Cornwall are more similar to the English than they are to other Celtic groups. The study describes distinct genetic differences across the UK, which reflect regional rather than national identities. And it shows that the invading Anglo Saxons did not wipe out the Britons of 1,500 years ago, but mixed with them.
Prof Peter Donnelly who co-led the study, said: "I had assumed at the very early stages of the project that there was going to be this uniform Celtic fringe extending from Cornwall through to Wales into Scotland. This has very definitely not been the case. We did not find a single genetic group corresponding to the Celtic traditions in the western fringes of Britain “
The study did find that people in the north of England are genetically more similar to people in Scotland than they are to those in the south of England. It also finds that people in North and South Wales are more different from each other than the English are from the Scots; and that there are two genetic groupings in Northern Ireland.
Given the far larger population of England when compared to the other British Isles nations, it is pretty well a certainty that England contains the largest population with Celtic DNA, at least in the British isles, and probably in the entire world. I know this tends to blow a hole in the popular narrative of Celtic distinctness from the English, but there it is.
You should probably realize that language, culture, and DNA are all separate things!
liar liarliar the Celts of lower Germany had all the markings and trappings of the culture, and again, were not a distinctly genetic set either. They were just Germans.
To me, this just makes the mystery more interesting.
Yes, the Celts is a broad brush generic label for many, many distinct groups that mostly did not share language, religion, or culture. Take the kingdom of Ulster and the 4 clans that went on to form the Dalriadan kingdom of Western Scotland, the isles, highlands, and coastal lands. They were called the Gaels, and their language is still the same Gaelic language shared on both sides of the Irish Sea today. These people, my ancestors, with the picts and other tribes, went on to form the kingdom of Alba, which went on to become Scotland, But they are not the same people genetically, that make up the majority of Great Britain and Ireland, and also had a lot of Norse influence genetically as well, as much of the population of Great Britain had heavy influence from different settlers and invaders: the Angles, Jutes, Saxons, Viking groups from Scandinavia had settled in different area, but sometimes intermixed, such as in Northumbria, the Dane Law, East Anglia, Mercia, and the Saxon Kingdoms. The Gaels shared the same Q-Celtic language group with people from Galicia, where the Gaels came from originally, based on genetics and their language group. The Welsh and Picts spoke a different form of the same language group, called P-Celtic. Linguistics shows that people who share the same language groups, were closer genetically, but not always culturally, as migration and settlement in different environments with different cultures and religions, generally reshapes the culture of migrating groups.
Celtic was a tech/political/economic paradigm
Speaking about genetics when trying to determine some sort of celticity is rather odd. Celtic is a term for people that share a culture defined as celtic and speak a language from the celtic language group.
With that said there is a (especially one y-dna haplogroup) that is more frequent along the european atlantic coast, but that doesn't say (at all) that it is a "celtic gene" since celtic people were spread a lot further than that, in centraleurope even as far as Galatia (present day anatolia).
The ancients were more advanced than us. Quit the hunger gatherer bs already
They were soo advanced, they didnt even have a cure for a minor infection. Quit with the more advanced stuff than us now bs. They still died really young, and usually from preventable diseases. More interesting than modern times maybe, but not more advanced.
@@CarlosSanchez-my7zg Actually, for infections and burns they used honey.
@@littledikkins2 ok, and this is more advanced than modern medicine? You already know the answer to that.
@@CarlosSanchez-my7zg Of course it isn't but it is what they used and does work fairly well, particularly on burns.
indeed they loved nature freedom they just work 3 days in that time today we work 7 days and still not enough
those three hundred standing stones could have been a calendar or a stone for every year
Spartans, what is your profession"
The groupings would be intentionally placed but lone massive stones are sedimentary rocks moved by glaciation.
If you don't have good evidence, just make something up to make a story.
What do you mean by that?
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Roman conquest of Iberia
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you have described the indigenous hunter gatherers and the neolithic farmers but Celts came from the steppe with horses and bronze
Finally.This is more a description on WHG.
Aries!!
The creepy sound effects
Didnt knw they had a legacy
This is very interesting but has nothing to do with the Celts!
The megaliths are pre-Indo-European for sure, but the Castro culture spoken of in this documentary was in fact Celtic, that is linguistically and culturally Celtic.
You say that as though it is a fact.
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Has this been made for 9 years olds or made by 9 year olds to appease a rather dim teacher?