The Irish are Not Celts

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how is anything completely proven when we don't have a clear understanding of the human genome? i don't care how forcefully someone says something about genetic markers, its THEORY like everything else. btw, scientific theory is what hasn't been disproven yet, not higher truth...

the Irish have many elements that compose their primordial beginning, some of which are not Halstatt / La Tene... 'Celts' is not appropriate for the timeline in question, and Halstatt / La Tene isn't even wholly Celtic people only, it's a CULTURE, not ethnicity. the Megalithic culture spanning from N.Africa to the British Isles is a good example - ironically that quote / article says EXACTLY THAT. they refer to the Megalith builders! they are indeed an interesting and important culture... and linked with Gaul and Celts

we all (fans and members) do appreciate discussion on these things, whether we're always right or not, and in this case a good point has been made and that is that we cannot completely attribute 'Celt' to the peoples the form the later identity known as Gael or Goidel despite a clearly Celtic language-speaking culture by the time of Old Irish. there are a good deal of non-Indo-Europeans in Europe who should not be underestimated. EB will be re-evaluating for EB2 the identification of all the peoples of the various lands such as with the Irish / Casse who might have a tad bit of theory stated as if it were fact... the bad side is that if some theory wasn't speculated on, then there would be nothing to say... saying how mysterious and undocumented a people is isn't very helpful for educational purposes, but we can certainly make sure it is known that we don't know for sure when things are questionable

we should also keep an eye out for interesting scientific studies, but i wouldn't buy too much into scientific procedures that haven't been fully developed yet. how many years have we scientifically verified genetic markers to correlations of ethnicities? oh wait, we haven't. let's not generalize something a lot more complicated than implied, and this was a long time ago even