New migration map of haplogroup R1b

[Mikewww]

I have to say this, the ideas brought up in "Celtic from the West" can be broken down into three pieces:

1) Celtic languages were spoken in the Atlantic region before the emergence of the Hallstatt Culture (or rather, the detachment of Celtic languages and culture from the Hallstatt Culture).

2) Celtic languages evolved in the Atlantic region.

3) Tartessian was a Celtic language.

Now I personally am totally fine with #1 (especially if we really assume that the Beaker-Bell Culture was indeed Indo-European), but I am seeing a lot of problems with #2 and I have my doubts on #3....

Thank you for your thoughtful response, Taranis. I will read the link you referred. I don't necessarily think Tartessian was Celtic or that Celtic did come from the "west" per Koch and Cunliffe. I don't really know, but I think it is highly possible and even probable that IE languages were spoken in Iberia before the Hallstatt folks reached there, though.

 

[Ziober]

The only tribe called by themselves celts were the celticis, in the SW of Iberia (Andalucia). And it is the only country with celtic coins.