osher history ireland scotland wales 1a
DESCRIPTION
We will examine Irish, Scottish, and Welsh history and culture from 500 BC to the present.TRANSCRIPT
Celtic pre-history
• Beaker folk, circa 2000 BC• Urnfield culture, circa 1200 BC
Maps of Beaker folk (l) and Urnfield culture (r)
Urnfield culture burial urns
Held in the Universitätsmuseum für Kulturgeschichte, Marburg, Hesse, Germany.
Celtic pre-history
• Indo-European• Common Celtic, circa 1000 BC• P and Q Celtic, circa 300 BC
Indo-European
Germanic Romance/Latinate
Common Celtic(all Continental
Celtic dialects now extinct)
Q Celtic/Goidelic P Celtic/Brythonic
Welsh, Cornish, Breton, Cumbric (Cumbric extinct)
Irish, Scottish, Manx
English and modern Germanic languages
French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
Son of = macHead = ceann
Son of= map, apHead = pen
Hallstatt culture, c.1200-500 BC (yellow) and La Tene, 500 BC-500 AD (green)Hallstatt excavated by Johann Georg Ramsauer in the mid-19 th century CE. La Tene excavated in mid-19th century.
Illustration of Hallstatt graves, discovered in 1846 in Austria
Hochdorf burial goods, 6th century BCDiscovered near Hochdorf an der Enz, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. Some pieces at the on site museum, others at the Kunst der Kelten, Historiches Museum, Bern.
Hochdorf sword
Hochdorf shoes
Hochdorf drinking horn
Hochdorf crater, with lion decoration
Hochdorf gold torque