Quote Originally Posted by General Appo
HOLD ON!! The picture in Sarcasms sig is actually a picture of that Celtiberian Heavy Infantryman!! He´s not even Lusotannan.
I would just like to throw my two cents in - regarding grouping of people of Iberia. I have just read Rome' Enemies (4) Spanish Armies from Osprey by Rafael Treviňo Martinez, and according to what is written in this book: the Lusitannians were in fact a branch of Celtiberians. The Iberians were living along the southern and the eastern coast of Iberia, while Celt-Iberians were living in central part of Iberia and along its western (west-central) coast, and Celts (or the most celtisized people) were living in the northern Iberia in the montainous region.

Let me quote from that book (on page 3 and 4 there is written following) -

"During the 3rd century BC, on the eve of the Second Punic War, we may categorise the Hispanic peoples in three major cultural and ethnic groups, as a result of long-standing mutual interaction and external influence during the First Iron Age. The group living in the north of Spain was formed by peoples having Indo-European roots, and largely "Celticised". The peoples, who developed a hill-top culture, are identified in the ancient sources as the Gallaeci, Cantabri and Astures. They appear to have been divided into multitude of smaller tribal communities, whose territory extended little beyond the fortified hill which they inhabited.........................................The central area of Spain, known today as the Meseta or Plateau, comprising the provinces of Salamanca, Caceres, Badajoz and Valladolid and Portugal, was inhabited by peoples who are known today by the conventional name of "Celt-Iberians" in obvious reference to a fusion of Celtic and Iberian cultures. Their great tribes were the Lusitani, the Vettones, the Vaccei, the Carpetani, the Arevaci and the Pellendones. Each of these tribes had its own distinct personality.......................................
The third major grouping, the civilisation of the Iberians, has proved to be one of the most controversial subjects in the study of Spanish protohistory. Some have denied their existence as a true cultural entity; others, with equal vigour, have advanced them as one of the most evolved of the peoples who have formed the mosaic of the Hispanic race. From the 7th century BC they came under the influences of the Phoenicians, the Greeks, the Egyptians, and all the other Mediterranean cultures. The basic nucleus was formed by the population of the territories associated earlier with the mythical kingdom of Tartessos, and comprising modern Andalusia and the Mediterranean coast, extending up to the southern coasts of France......................"

It's really nice reading I bought it recently (also with similar publication on Gallic and British Celts), its very thin book with great infos and nice illustrations.