Stephen Oppenheimer’s new book The Origins of the British is packed full of interest for Celtic and English studies.
There is indeed ample evidence of Celtic writing, which is interesting because of the assertion that the Celts never wrote anything down. In fact it seems they wrote all the time and in many languages, for example, the many Tessera Hospitale and inscriptions located all over south west Europe, written in Celtiberian, Latin, Lepontic, Gaulish, Iberian, Lusitanian, Greek, Galatian and Noricum, Brythonic, Goidelic and with possible links to Basque. The Irish Lebor Gabála Érenn provides ample evidence of the survival of Celtic writing dating back to at least 2400 BCE. Funny how so little has survived! I wonder what happened to it all? Read the rest of this entry »
“They do not understand that the reason why the poor exist is that the rich own too much.
How can archaeologists recognise and interpret the remains of cult and ritual activity?
What remains for us to study?
