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Dogs have been frequently eaten everywhere in the world from the antiquity up to now (there were still dogs butcher shops in the 19th century in France).

A number of historians think the Celtic languages emerged before 1200 BC.

It's now confirmed that the dead of Lavau was a male.

Relating to our discussion about "female warriors": http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/n0506-female-amazon-warrior-buried-2500-years-ago-in-altai-mountains-was-male/

Contrary to what you say, in most cases archeologists identified the sex by looking at the bones. As written by the Archaeological Center of Bibracte, sex can be identified by the pelvic bones (95% reliability) and the skull bones (90% reliability). So it's not a circular logic. Thanks to these...

As far as I know, no Celtic female tomb has been attested with a sword (Mike Adamson doesn't provide any example). Obviously we may found one in the future, but it's unlikely. With the thousands of graves excavated, if we haven't found one, it means that the female ritual was not to put a sword...

As you said in your later post, the difference between "Hallstatt" and "La Tene" is a question of period. The territories are only the results of the artefacts that have been found, corresponding to one or the other period. The usual maps where we can see a "La Tene area" and a "Hallstatt area"...

A Hallstattian tomb means a tomb from the Hallstatt period which ends in the middle of the Vth century. The tomb is probably from the 1st half of the Vth century, so is Hallstattian, as are Vix or Heuneburg. La Tene side doesn't mlean anything.

So lest's call this tomb "Celtic" as it is Hallstattian.

Not in the Vth century. And you should remember that in the Vth century, the Greek authors used the word "Keltoi"(we don't have any texts from the Romans mentioning Gaulish, or Gallia before the IIIrd century BC). The Hallstatt culture, or the Hallstattian tombs, are never refered as Gaulish...

I know these texts. They should represent perhaps 1% of the texts involving men as warriors. And what about feminine tombs with swords? I'm still interested in your examples, as there should be at least one, but my knowledge is not as good as yours. Look at this link, and you will change your...

There should have been at least some, perhaps even reaching 1% of the tombs with swords, but I haven't found any example (except one from the Przeworsk culture). So can you provide examples? As far as texts are concerned, I don't remember so many texts with women fighting with swords, here...

To close the subject about the use of "Celtic", "Gallic" or "La Tene", this is a Celtic tomb from the late Hallstatt period with Mediterranean objects. No Celtic art here (except perhaps the small vase and the wheel parts). As this type of objects is a marker of the Celtic tombs of the Elite...

More info on this tomb: 1- First, we must use the word "Celtic" and not "Gaulish". At the beginning of the Vth century, the word Gaulish is not used. We are at the end of the Hallstatt period, and the the Prince buried here is clearly related to the Hallstattian area which is Celtic and not...

I am surprised by comments of forumers saying about ancient people that their name is an exonym (which obviously can be true). It often suggests that it's not their actual name. But don't you think that most ancient people names are probably exonyms?