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There is only one Druid from antiquity whose existence is attested by name: 'Diviciacus' - an aristocrat of the Aedui tribe who lived in Gaul during the 1st century BC.
#OnThisDay 1616 Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone died in Rome of a fever. O’Neill took on & almost beat Elizabethan England in the Nine Years War. The Flight of the Earls in 1607 saw O’Neill & followers leave Ireland for Europe hoping to return with an army. #Ireland #History
Kerbstone 15, a 5,000-year-old Neolithic artifact at the Knowth passage tomb in Ireland’s Boyne Valley, is carved with intricate designs including a central cupmark with 20 radiating lines, spirals, and U-shaped motifs. One of 124 kerbstones surrounding the site’s main mound, it…
In central France, archaeologists have made a remarkable discovery of an ancient burial site, uncovering the remains of at least 100 individuals who were interred approximately 2,300 years ago, along with a diverse collection of artifacts, including a beautifully preserved Celtic…
Today in American History: July 23rd, 1785 Ben Franklin sails back across the Atlantic from France! Everyone knows Ben Franklin, but how much do you know about his time in France as ambassador during the Revolution and his role in securing French support? Let's explore
The gallic chietain who besieged Rome in 387 BC ( Brennos) strangely bore the same name as the gaulish leader who invaded the sanctuary of Delphi in 278 BC (Brennos). It likely was a warrior title, from "branos": « raven », an avatar of Lugh, related to Irish Bran (mac Febail)
"The nation of all the Gauls is extremely devoted to superstitious rites (...) Others have figures of vast size, the limbs of which formed of osiers they fill with living men, which being set on fire, the men perish enveloped in the flames" Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico
Neolithic Farmers prior to the Corded Ware People were already burying themselves with Battle Axes
In the 4th millenium BC, the Hebrides were the last bastion of the hunter-gatherers in the British isles. Today the region remains one the last stronghold of the Scottish Gaelic language.
Fijaos qué maravilla de capiteles alberga la Abadía de San Quirce y qué patoso servidor que, tras conseguir el nada fácil permiso para visitarlo, le salieron este desastre de fotos 😂. Supongo que consecuencia de la emoción por estar en un sitio que pensé jamás verían mis ojos
There is a strong possibility that Ireland had Crannogs as early as the Neolithic.
The conservatism of the Gaelic and Pictish societies (as opposed to the Britons) is shown by this map of the location of the known Crannogs in the British isles. The Crannogs were a neolithic tradition of island dwellings, kept alive during the Iron age.
Curious to see inside a crannóg what might reasonably be called a country house had it survived. Rolf Loeber, Irish Houses and Castles, 1400–1740, ed. Kevin Whelan (Dublin, 2019), p. 122.
Scholar Maigréad Dobbs has proposed to see an Irish cognate of the name Vercingetorix in the form ' Ferchinged an rí', shortened 'Ferchinged', which appears in the Book of Leinster.
Vercingetorix appears to have been a title, rather than a personal name, carried by the one who held the kingship over Gaul. In gaulish, Werkingetorīx means “super-warrior-king, king of super-warriors”), from Gaulish *wer- (“over”) + *kingess (“warrior”) + *rīx (“king”)
Even the lake-dwelling lifestyle and the tradition of building artificial construction on wetlands are mesolithic. Already during the 9th millenium BC, mesolithic people built mighty wooden platforms on the shore of Lake Flixton.
Neolithic Hebrideans created a prehistoric Venice by building dozens of artificial islands with timber and stones, known as 'crannogs’, which may have been ritual sites.
This could explain why numerous words relating to fishing in Old Irish derive from an unknown substrate: -partán 'crab' -gliomach 'lobster -bradán 'salmon' -scadán 'herring' These words could be mesolithic/neolithic and were passed down to the later inhabitants of the Isles.
The hunter-gatherer-fishers and the farmers coexisted for several hundred years on the West Coast of Scotland. But a community with a mixed Fisher/farmer ancestry eventually emerged at Raschoille cave.
The hunter-gatherer-fishers and the farmers coexisted for several hundred years on the West Coast of Scotland. But a community with a mixed Fisher/farmer ancestry eventually emerged at Raschoille cave.
In a Mesolithic site on the Isle of Oronsay, the last hunter gatherers of Scotland deposited together seal flipper bones and human hand bones in a shell midden.
The 'Seal people' in the movie 'The eagle' resembled more mesolithic tribespeople than Iron age Picts. wonder if the director was aware of the archeological finds at Orensay..
When the first neolithic farmers arrived in the Hebrides, they would have discovered a mesolithic community that had a symbiotic relationship with seals, equating them symbolically with humans
The memory of the mesolithic women of the Hebrides was never lost. Folktales of human-seals creatures were passed down from one generation to the other and gave rise to the myth of the Selkies, the seal women of the Scottish folklore.
When the first neolithic farmers arrived in the Hebrides, they would have discovered a mesolithic community that had a symbiotic relationship with seals, equating them symbolically with humans
When the first neolithic farmers arrived in the Hebrides, they would have discovered a mesolithic community that had a symbiotic relationship with seals, equating them symbolically with humans
The association of seal bones and human remains is hugely symbolic and might indicate a belief according to which the 'divide between humans and seals was blurred and fluid'