Saturday, September 23, 2006

Selts vs. Kelts vs. ... Basques???


Everything you know is wrong.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

That is fascinating. I read somewhere that there is also genetic evidence that the Aborigines of Australia were not the original race in Australia. It seems a pygmy like race had migrated from Africa when the sea levels were such that island hopping was possible.

Perhaps migration is even more a part of who people are than war is.

chuck said...

There is obviously much more to the migrations and interminglings of ancient peoples than we know.

There was a show on the seven daughters of Eve that traced the maternal line of some Americans back in time. The most curious thing was that a red haired woman of Greek heritage and an Iroqois(?) shared a common ancestress in central asia. Yep, we all gotta move on. It is like a country and western song.

Re: the illustration. Is that NC Wyeth?

chuck said...

Skook,

Yeah, I think you are right. Here is some Wyeth stuff, and there are some Maxfield Parrish illustrations at the same site. But the style of the illustration here looks really familiar, I just can't put a name to it.

chuck said...

I found a source of the illustration, but there is no artist's name attached. Maybe it comes from a museum exhibit?