Which country did the celts live in?

Theories abound on the origin, distribution and identity of this people/s. It was widely believed "they" came from south-western Russia and the Caucasus, during the Bronze Age, spreading west. The word Celt is indeed suspect, and ambiguous.

It is possibly more helpful to treat it as a culture, much like the Hellenic culture spread through the Mediterranean in the Bronze Age, but not necessarily by Greeks. Remains of 'Celts', place-names, artefacts, have been found from China to Ireland, Galatia in Turkey to Cordoba in Spain. What seems to unite them is: tribalism, chiefs whether male or female (such as the matriarchal Parisii who founded Paris, and emigrated to Britain), cattle rearing and stealing, chariots, close knowledge and use of horses, trousers (which they got from the Scythians), a complex religious attitude involving nature-spirits, gods and goddesses, re-incarnation, oracular heads.

Research from chromosomes reveals a number of oddities: in the traditional 'celtic' areas ... more.

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