Celtic Tomb Sheds Light On Iron Age Trade

The alps where not full of gallic people when Celts formed la Tene in the west and Halstatt in the east of the lower northern alps. La Tene was on the Helvetica side and halstatt was in Noricum, the illyric side , named after the Nori people who once celtinized became known as Norici

There was no cultural discontinuity between Hallstatt and La Tene. Scholars have agreed on a specific date after which the culture was to be referred to as La Tene rather than Halstatt, and the separate name was applied to the period when the culture expanded westward and also came under the influence of Etruscans and also Greeks who had settled in what is now southern France. So the two cultures can be distinguished in the sense that La Tene is a continuation of Hallstatt. And since we know that La Tene people spoke a Celtic language, it's reasonable to believe that Halstatt people did as well, or at least that most Hallstatt people did. And the Gallic people are simply the continuation of the La Tene culture in a specific geographical area during the Roman era.
 
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 in a female tomb (the fact that women may have used a sword is not equivalent to the fact that they have been buried with a sword). We could say the same with the razor : they have been only found in men's tombs (which cannot exclude that we may find one, but it's unlikely).
So the probability that the dead of Lavau would be a man is certainly > 99,9%, which is not only "most of the time".

The logic is circular, since in most cases archeologists did not test the genetics of the bodies they found and assumed that if one was found with a sword, it must be male. They made the same mistake with Scythian finds, but subsequent DNA testing showed that a small percentage of those Scythian men who were buried with swords were actually women. I'm sure that if some of those Celtic finds were tested for DNA, a small percentage of those who were buried with swords would be found to be women. And the reason I think that is because there's some evidence that in both the Scythian and Celtic cultures, the right to bear arms had more to do with social class than gender.
 
The logic is circular, since in most cases archeologists did not test the genetics of the bodies they found and assumed that if one was found with a sword, it must be 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 examinations, hundreds of Celtic skeletons have been identified as female skeletons. In these tombs, no sword, no razor, no tools (except textile and leather tools) have been found.

And the reason I think that is because there's some evidence that in both the Scythian and Celtic cultures, the right to bear arms had more to do with social class than gender.
Lest's speak about the Celts. Do you mean the Celtic armies were full of women? Unhappily Caesar has not seen one, or at least not quoted one, during the 7 years spent in Gaul. Just be serious. The warriors were obviously men, with very marginal exceptions.
 

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