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yes, it's very interesting the Tartessian civilization. We have had discussions here about it. Some say they spoke a Celtic language, others say Pre-Celtic, and others say only a indo-european. What it's clear is that they were an early wave of indo-europeans of the proto-Celtic branch
It is possible that the kingdom of Tartessos was formed by a Celtic tribe and, perhaps of Iberian origin. Perhaps the arrival of the Celts in the area began to build something different in the area and launched after the Phoenicians.
historical truth should be known over the ideological fashions or topics of the moment.
And the historical truth is that so-called Celts were actually Celtic. In this regard, the conclusions of the linguists are final: All deciphered inscriptions, in a large area extending from the Guadalquivir valley to the Pyrenees from the plateau east and south to the Bay of Biscay, respond to a type of Celtic language.
Does that mean he was wrong Diodorus of Sicily, the sources before him? The classics had their reasons. The Celts were Celtic, but Celtic had received the cultural influence of Iberian civilization at that time stretched across the Mediterranean Sea, like the French Celts or Celtic Midi Italian Southern Alps had entered with Iberians Ligurian and Etruscan. the Celts used a script Iberian type. Perhaps that is why he thought of the mixing hypothesis.
the Celts: Celtic took some time for signs of alien writing to write in their own language. The most important element in this work has been perhaps the bronze Botorrita, whose character undoubtedly Celtic. It is, yes, a Celtic peculiar, different from other parts of Europe, very archaic and, well, different even to other findings allegedly Celtic Iberian Peninsula itself, such as those on Lusitanian dialect. That means that Celtic penetration in Spain was very early in the first years of the first millennium BC, and since then came to be uninterrupted for three or four centuries.
What's more, the study of the Lusitano and the former hydronyms of the peninsula to the conclusion that, prior to this early Celtic penetration, we must accept the arrival of Indo-European groups, perhaps a Celtic still not very different from the rest of Indo-European peoples, perhaps those primordial Indo eventually formed a single people. We face a hypothesis that after the contributions of linguistics can be handled with absolute security bond. To all this must be added as evidence Celtic origin Argantonio name, the famous king of Tartessos, on the southern tip of the peninsula, and that allows us to suspect, at least, the presence of an aristocracy of character in an Indo-European civilization to now held by only Iberian. The nature of the myth clearly Herculean Tartessos Habis (or Habidis), very closely related to other heroes like the Celtic area, seem to support this suggestion, as well as religious worship to the wild boar, deer, horse and bull spread throughout Peninsula
In short, the language has been practiced on the history of Spain such an operation which took place on the Mycenaean civilization. In the case of Mycenae, the majority opinion was that it was an oriental civilization and Pelasgians, inherited perhaps from Crete, until it was discovered that his writing, the "Linear B", was actually an archaic form of Greek, Mycenaean era Indo-European. Similarly, research on the written testimonies of the first Spain has led to the conclusion that our peninsula was, above all, Celtic, significantly lessening the weight of Iberian and cercanoriental component. Of course, there remain several problems: first, to know the exact origin of Tartessos and civilization, to confirm the evidence of Celtic presence in it, the second, to elucidate the origin and extent of the Iberians, whether it was a village perhaps native-heir of the megalithic civilization, or if came from North Africa and the third, solving the problem of the Basques, who are still unaware of whether they belong to the Iberian area or if they came to Spain with the first waves of migration, for Finally, reveal the identity of some other Indo-European groups that likely arrived in Spain in prehistoric times and are still wrapped in a cloud of mystery. But what is beyond question is that the early history of Spain should be written again.
WOW...So you are now contradiciting all the historians who agree that Celtiberian was a FULL Celtic language.- Celtiberian inscriptions (around 2nd century BC), from the Ebro valley area. The Celtiberians created their own modified version of the Levantine script, adapted for writing a Celtic language. There are also later Celtiberian inscriptions from the 1st century BC which are written in the Latin script.
WOW...So you are now contradiciting all the historians who agree that Celtiberian was a FULL Celtic language.
Taranis
I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to say there. If you think the original homeland of the Indo-Europeans was in Iberia... well... that's total nonense, because basically all evidence speaks against THAT.
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