Who were the Celts?

The Celts of Britain and Ireland are descended from a population who expanded out of northern Spain after the last Ice Age (See R1b on Wiki). The DNA doesn't show any connection with Berbers. They are the source of dark hair and eyes among the Celts; they are not dark-skinned however PREVIOUS ANSWER: Answer: The Celts were a group of tribes who originated in the Berber areas of North Africa and were a small dark skinned people who at a later time migrated to the Iberian peninsular gradually spreading into Galicia and the Basque regions, where traces of them may still exist.

The confusion arises as to whether they ever existed as one tribe or even several tribes due to Roman commanders describing them as abnormally tall and ginger haired, thus putting them at odds with the facts. The people they mention are probably a Baltic group, Germanic in appearance and very unlikely to be 'Celts The swarthy appearance of some people in North Wales and the Irish islands and in the Scottish highlands suggest these may be the remnants of the lost 'Celts The above is correct. But I am not sure about the North Welsh.

Dark skinned they may be - but they are possibly remenants of dark skinned Romano-Brythonic peoples who were pushed there by the Anglo-Saxon invaders of the 5th - 6th Centuries. But they could be Berber origins.

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