“It seems that not all Celtic speakers shared equally in the demonstration of what we now tend to call ‘Celtic culture’ as measured by archeology. And conversely, it is likely that not everyone who wore a La Tène-style brooch spoke Celtic. History is likely to have been less tidy than some modern museum labels and the neat maps of artefact distribution found in many modern studies. What is certainly clear is that the ancient ‘Celts’ were composed of competing and conflicting tribes; and most probably had little awareness of any pan-Celtic identity. Celtic identity is found more in the eye of the modern beholder than in the reality of ancient competing tribal politics and alliances.People living in central Europe may have shared a language that was related to that spoken in the Atlantic zone but there is good reason to think that this did not make them culturally the same. And it is highly unlikely that they ever described themselves as ‘Celtic’.”
Well, the thing there is that there is a big hole between that NW corner of the peninsula and the next bagpiping place. The rest of the peninsula doesn’t use bagpipes, nor does the south of France.
I just googled íberos, celtas y celtíberos, wondering if the images there would have changed from what I was taught 30 years ago (so many things have…). And yes they have: now the Iberians are being pictured as pretty much only among the mediterranean coasts, the Celtiberians as a small area around Guadalajara (ok, sorry guys but as they are “the mixture of the other two”, that doesn’t make any sense) and the Celts as the immense majority of the Peninsula. See here. This one is more like what I was taught.
Thanks Nava. Very helpful. Thank you all.