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Ancient Origins of the Celts
By: guest5 Date: April 29, 2021, 11:23 pm
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Ancient Origins of the Celts - Ancient Civilizations DOCUMENTARY
[quote]The Kings and Generals animated historical documentary
series on the ancient civilizations continues with a video on
the Celts, as we discuss their ancient origins, culture,
religion, economic and political structures, with a focus on the
Hallstatt and La Tene civilizations.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_QizTMIr-0
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The Apocalyptic Downfall of Roman Britain
By: guest78 Date: December 1, 2022, 3:02 pm
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The Apocalyptic Downfall of Roman Britain
[quote]Around 410 Britain become the first province of the Roman
Empire to fall into barbarian hands. Following that the British
isles would experience one of the worst downfalls in human
history. This short history documentary is meant to contrast
the severe differences between Roman and Post Roman
Britain.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsSem6JeQ9Q
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Re: Turanian diffusion
By: antihellenistic Date: April 5, 2024, 8:14 am
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Differences between Non-Western Ancient Society and Western
Ancient Society
[quote]The most studied advanced chiefdoms include those of
Tonga, Society Islands, Tahiti, Peru, and Hawaii. The population
of some of these consisted of tens of thousands of members,
headed by several, pyramidal grades of sub-chiefs, with a
paramount chief at the top. In the 1960s and 1970s, it was
commonly believed that chiefdoms in general were kin-based
societies operating on the voluntary contributions of tribal
members to do the work that was required for survival (Fried
1967). Chiefs were seen as organizers and coordinators of
resources for the mutual benefit of various groups (Service
1975). In more recent years, however, the view has come to
prevail, as we saw above, that chiefs were aggressive
individuals willfully engaged in aggrandizing strategies,
collecting surpluses from the commoners to establish and enforce
their dominion over time and compete successfully with other
chiefs. Chiefdoms, from what we currently know, were continually
at war and leadership was vested in war leaders (Carneiro 1981).
Then again, chiefs did undertake public activities, such as the
building and maintenance of irrigation works, storage of food,
conduct of long distance trade, and, of course, military
protection and expansion, all which were simply too complex and
important for individual households to handle.
Gat says that the societies Julius Caesar wrote about in his The
Gallic War (58 BC–51 BC) were already highly stratified, “with
chiefs and ‘big men’ transformed into a powerful aristocracy”
(2006: 212). Caesar’s book, Gat says, is full of ethnographic
observations on how the old tribal assemblies of Celtic society
“has been reduced in significance, and ordinary men had all but
lost their say.” The impression Gat leaves is that the Celts had
ceased to be a “ranked” society led by big men. He cites Caesar:
“The most powerful chiefs, and such as had the means to hire
men, commonly endeavored to make themselves king” (212). The
Celts were apparently on their way to becoming a state with a
monarchical ruler. Gat also draws attention to the observations
Caesar made about the Germans as a “more egalitarian tribal
society” than that of the Celts. Gat then states that by the
time Tacitus came to write his Germania (AD 98), he encountered
chief-like Germanic societies that were not as developed as the
Celts of the 1st century BC but were, nevertheless, ruled by
powerful aristocratic chiefs who competed with each other as
leaders of their own retinue of warriors.
According to Gat, these German chieftains were close in their
evolutionary development to the Celts referred to by the
historian Polybius (203–120 BC). Again, Gat is under the
impression that the Germans Caesar observed were members of a
“transegalitarian” (or simple horticultural) society. They were
not. The Indo-European cultures which spread throughout Europe
(2800–1300 BC) were all “Bronze Age” chiefdoms. The Corded
Ware/Single Burial culture that emerged in the North European
Plain at the beginning of the 3rd millennium, the Bell Beaker
phenomenon that spread across western Europe later in the 3rd
millennium, the boat-building maritime heroic tradition that was
visible around the North Sea during the middle of the 2nd
millennium, the Urnfield Late Bronze Age culture (1300-800 BC),
followed by the Hallstatt Early Iron Age culture (800–480 BC),
and then by the La Tene culture (from 400BC to the Roman
Conquest), were all chief-level societies of increasing
complexity ruled by aristocratic elites (Cunliffe 2008: 167–69,
213–21, 267, 309–16). The Celtic culture Caesar observed was led
by paramount chieftains directly controlling simple chiefdoms
and indirectly controlling (through tributary relations) complex
chiefdoms.
As stated above, I use the term “aristocratic” to designate the
continued presence of an ethos of egalitarianism at the top of
the chiefly hierarchy. I suspect that Gat’s misidentification of
Europe’s simple chiefdoms as “big man” societies was due to the
strong egalitarian spirit still exhibited by these chiefdoms.
The war leaders of the Germanic tribes Caesar observed, for
example, were chosen ad hoc by the tribal assemblies for the
duration of the military activity, and the chiefs (not “big
men”), as Gat refers to them (213), were freely moving warriors
who would compete to attract young warriors eager for adventure
and individual renown. The relations between the members of the
war bands, as Gat recognizes, were “largely egalitarian,
‘brotherhoods’ of ‘fellows’ ” (220).[/quote]
Source :
The Uniqueness of Western Civilization by Ricardo Duchesne page
389 - 390
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Re: Ancient Origins of the Celts
By: Percussion Date: October 11, 2025, 1:55 pm
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[quote]Celtic percussion and Indian percussion similarities
Celtic and Indian percussion share several similarities,
particularly in their use of drums and other percussion
instruments. Both cultures have a rich history of using drums in
religious and spiritual practices, with Celtic shamans and
Druids using drums to aid in altered states of consciousness,
and Indian percussion instruments like the tabla and mridangam
used in rituals and ceremonies.
The use of drums in both cultures is deeply intertwined with
their religious and spiritual practices, reflecting the
universal nature of drumming as a means of spiritual expression.
Additionally, the combination of Celtic and Indian musical
styles, as seen in projects like Celtic Connections,
demonstrates the potential for cross-cultural musical
collaboration and innovation.
These similarities highlight the interconnectedness of musical
traditions and the shared human heritage that underpins the
development of percussion instruments and their use in various
cultural contexts. [/quote]
HTML https://drumspy.com/academy/celtic-drumming-history-and-overview/
Celtic Connections combines Celtic and Indian music traditions
[quote]Art has had an interesting history of both expressing the
conventions of culture through folklore and rebelling against
those conventions to create something revolutionary. It can both
reinforce the envelope and push it.[/quote]
HTML https://ubyssey.ca/culture/celtic-connections-combines-celtic-and-indian-music-traditions-432/
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