Comments by "Iain Mc" (@iainmc9859) on "Hallstatt Culture DNA: What was the Genetic Makeup of the Proto-Celtic Culture of Europe?" video.

@minadoro The Romans called it Cisalpine Gaul (Gaul this side of the Alps).
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General response to all previous responses from initial comment. 'Celtic', although I self-identify as a Celt myself, just isn't a term we can hammer down to one thing or another, is it linguistic (not entirely), is it cultural (not entirely), is it genetic (not entirely), is it time period specific (not entirely), is it geographic (not entirely). Do we exist ... well yeah, sort of ... or are we a classical author's misrepresentation of just 'not Greek or Roman'. It might explain why 'Celtic Art' often looks like an existential crisis; where did we start, where are we going, where are we now ... on your feet for 'Strip the Willow' and get the next round of drinks in ?
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@mariiris1403 Sorry I confused my terminology, which is as close to 'I got the words wrong' as I'm probably going to admit to. Of course there is a difference between DNA and chromosomal inheritance. What I was trying to say was as all mtDNA only passes through the female line, ie male grandchildren do not inherit their paternal grandmothers mtDNA, only their maternal grandmothers, and they themselves do not pass that on to their offspring, then female genetic inheritence is lost. I hope that makes it clearer. If not please note I'm not a geneticist and my only science qualification is in Geology, which means I can probably tell you what your great grandmothers grave stone is made of, useful hey 🤷‍♂
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Its a quirk of genetic science but I always find it frustrating that mtDNA only passes through the maternal line after the second generation and is so limited in variety compared to Y-chromosomes. Imagine how much more we would know about female migration if that limitation was gone. I guess that as we already can't cope with making much sense of convoluted male DNA migration it might save us from a further headache.
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You must finally be a real Youtuber, you're getting comments from the racists and the bible bashers. That's the problem with history, genetics and culture ... somebody always wants to twist it into 'We are the Chosen People', rather than 'its amazing how diverse and multi-layered we are'.
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@kifi672 We all have an accent, I live 10 miles away from where Celtic History Decoded was brought up and the accents different (very different). If CHD said letter o instead of number zero I'm sure he'd be the first to admit it was just a slip of the tongue; which is why in continental Europe a diagonal bar is often put through zero so it cannot be mistaken for a capital O.
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@ezzovonachalm9815 Define 'Celt'. Define 'Druid'. Define 'Civilisation'. Define 'Houses'. As the 'Indo-European hordes' were in Europe in approximately the 4th millennium BCE then that puts your Hallstadt at about the 9th millennium BCE. Approximately 7 millennia before the Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia. Now I'm willing to believe that settlements began earlier than we thought, after all Gobekli Tepe had residents about 9500 BCE, but as Hallstadt A culture only began in about 1200 BCE then that's a long time before it developed from what I'm presuming you see as something like Skara Brae into an actual recognisable culture. If you could just reference your sources ... ?
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@ezzovonachalm9815 So you have a definition of Celt solely from two classical writers. No definition of Druids, Civilisation or Houses and no effective timeline for your Hallstadt claims. Personally, I'll just stick to Archeological, Linguistic, and Genetic evidence of there being a Northwest European culture, that developed from Indo-European speakers/settlers, spreading out from the northern rim of the Alps; which in some areas was called Gaulish, and developed a larger non-de-plume of 'Celtic' as linguistic similarities, as well as artistic ones, were noted in the C19th. I don't think anyone is stating that 'Celticism' culturally, linguistically, artistically or genetically had a singular source point in the village of Hallstadt. I'm certainly not and I don't think any of the other commenter are specifically stating this either, therefore we are probably, on that point, in agreement.
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@ezzovonachalm9815 I'm going to presume that English is not your first language. This is the first time you've mentioned Hecataeus of Miletus in a comment relating to this vlog, so I couldn't have read or forgotten it. If you read my response I base the common usage of 'Celtic' on Archaeological, Linguistic and Genetic evidence but also state clearly there was a C19th collectivising of these people as 'Celtic' based on linguistic and artistic grounds. Why did you suddenly drop all mention of Hallstadt ? As you not only do not read my comments, but neither your own, you'll forgive me if I ignore your erratic responses. I suggest you get a better online translator.
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@Ajemone Could have been a worse insult ... I could have called you Roman 😁
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