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There have been impassioned discussions on this forum about the Celts of Britain and Ireland. Who were they? Where did they come from? How much movement was there between Britain and Ireland? Who built the massive brochs of Scotland? And why did they feel a need to live in the Iron Age version of a castle? What was the passion for tattoos in woad...

At last I have added the promised section on the Slavs...

Continuing my reportage of Saturday's one-day forum and book launch at St Anne's College, Oxford, I'm going to mesh a lecture on the day with a paper in the newly-published volume, to paint an emerging picture of Ireland's Celtic past.

The lecture was from William O’Brien...

A.A. Kazarnitsky of the Russian Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography has published what I previously searched for in vain - a study of the crania from the Copper Age Maikop Culture of the North Caucasus.* These fascinating people seem to pop up out of nowhere, which has long been a puzzle. I suspected that they had arrived from the south. The...

The Lebor Gabála Érenn...