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DR. A. B. SCOTT, in his paper on “The Historic Sequence of Peoples, Culture and Characteristics in Scotland, 400 B.C.-A.D. 950”, read before Section H (Anthropology) of the British Association meeting at Aberdeen, began by a reference to the two lines of approach into western Europe: (1) up the Danube Valley, (2) along the course of the Save, and thence into the valley of the Po. Between 1200 and 1000 B.C. a division of the Celts, moving westward, was on the Wallachian and Pannonian plains. The Celts moved as colonists, with families, slaves, workers and cattle, escorted by the military caste. The Celts from the Danube stream produced the descendants who first entered Britain as a P-preserving folk. The other stream made contact with Greek peoples, Illyrians, Ligyes (Ligurians), Italic peoples. They met non-Celtic neighbours who pronounced Indo-European Qu in the throat as well as others who articulated it from the lips as P.
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The Historic Sequence of the Celts. Nature 134, 858 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134858a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/134858a0