Recruitment in Celtiberia

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To call Lusitanians a branch of the Celtiberians is wrong in my view, and an oversimplification - remember that the ancient authors themselves do not refer to them as Celtiberians. Other terms such as Iberians and Gallaeci are also major major oversimplifications.

Well "branch of Celtiberians" was my wording, not of Osprey's. So I think that you are unrightly harsh on them while you should be harsh on me.

Here is again what I quoted from the book about Celt-Iberians.

"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...."

This really doesn't seem as oversimplification (I will give you that that I had indeed oversimplify that by choosing that rather dull word branch) But as you can see in Osprey there is clearly written that we know those people TODAY by the conventional name of Celt-Iberians, and then they also continue with stating that each of these tribes had its own distinct personality and continue with a brief description of some of those named tribes.