Genava55

Maybe it is a good idea to open another thread/task about the Celtic British Shields?

The most important difference is clearly the shields. They are unique to the British island. The tattoos could be a second distinctive feature. The only difficulty with the Britons is their lack of various helmet. Outside decorative and unpractical helmet, there are only two finds: A coolus type: http://www.texascoritani.com/a-late-iron-age-helmet-found-near-canterbury/ And the famous cap-jockey Meyrick Helmet: https://www.bmimages.com/preview.asp?image=00600629001 There is a supposed other helmet in the Ashmolean museum, but since the British museums are among the worst in the world to share information (f*cking vultures stealing everything in other country but sharing nothing) I cannot be sure to its origin. It could be a stolen piece from elsewhere.

There are evidences for this on the cauldron of Gundestrup and on several gallo-roman statues. The museum of Bibracte did a representation in this way for an "aide de camp": https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Bibracte_Dumnorix.jpg

At the neck never. Only one.

Hi, Thank you for your proposal and your help. Yup, we know and your help could be useful in these threads:

@wackyserious @Alexandermb maybe it could be useful for you too. It was a first proposal I did.

Yep, it is why I suggested this before to decorate the Civ Center:

Reenactment groups: https://www.facebook.com/pg/samara.parcarcheologique/photos/?ref=page_internal https://www.facebook.com/trimatrici/ https://www.facebook.com/Les-Ambiani-729215287167804/ https://www.facebook.com/Les-Leuki-Troupe-de-reconstitution-protohistorique-181382625243624/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/223291187688215/ https://www.facebook.com/La-Lance-Arverne-986672904698883/ https://www.facebook.com/Viviskes/

It looks like a variante of a Forêt de Louviers helmet. But yes, the helmet is badass. Not all of them but yes, you got the idea. To be helpful here a picture of some helmets found in Spain:

The berru type should be exclusive to the Gauls but the montefortino helmets are widespread in the Celtic cultures of the iberian peninsula and also in the region of modern Catalunya (Illergetes and Indiketes).

http://bau.nu/Historisk illustration Historische Illustration History illustration/vikingetid wikingerzeit viking-age.html

I found some nice sketch here: https://www.academia.edu/33869534/Contribution_bas-normande_à_une_archéologie_des_relations_transmanches_à_la_fin_de_lâge_du_Fer._Echanges_matériels_et_culturels_-_Figures (for French speaking people, there is a recent documentary about the relation between Aremorica and Britannia regions during the pre-Roman period: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH-lXCmP3XQ)

Anatolian

Someone sent me an article I found interesting to complement my previous summary: "Like a Certain Tornado of Peoples": Warfare of the European Huns in the Light of Graeco-Latin Literary Tradition https://www.academia.edu/1264349/_Like_a_Certain_Tornado_of_Peoples_Warfare_of_the_European_Huns_in_the_Light_of_Graeco-Latin_Literary_Tradition

I like the idea because the recent Total War are impossible to mod correctly and the engine of M2TW is far too old and too limited. It could be a nice alternative in the gamer world. You want to do a kind of mix between a paradox game, a Total War and an Anno game?

It is already the case. Even codified ethics like deontology can be twisted to do what we will consider bad things today. See the following Take an example from the history of deontological ethics, with Calvin and Luther. Their ethics is based on the natural law of God, the belief that what is good and bad is already explained by God. They killed a lot of people, they have forbidden art because of this way to see what is good or not. Most of the theological tyrannies are based on the same mental process of building a moral code from a deontological perspective. Even the deontological ethics of Kant take in account the motive of the person. The only difference from the virtue ethics is that Kant believes in golden rules, as never lying in any occasion (which has cause a lot of debate and contradiction). I really suggest to read this debate about the categorical imperative of Kant from a nazi perspective, there : https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2012/nov/19/evil-trial-eichmann-morally-responsible https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/aug/29/hannah-arendt-adolf-eichmann-banality-of-evil The problems arising in the deontological perspective is often the same: contradicting rules. The trial of Eichmann is in fact solved by calling what we called virtue. I agree totally with MacIntyre for this, in the end all ethics end to the virtue to solve their own weakness.

Personally I am more in favor of virtue ethics: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-virtue/ https://jme.bmj.com/content/29/5/297 The most important reason for this is because I don't believe we can codify or make a set of rules for what is good and what is bad in absolute terms. It is too late to elaborate, maybe tomorrow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noin-Ula_burial_site https://scfh.ru/en/papers/history-embroidered-in-wool/ https://scfh.ru/en/papers/steppe-fashion-/

In the same register: The past as propaganda: totalitarian archaeology in Nazi Germany http://karant.pilsnerpubs.net/files/Propaganda.pdf

Well, it is mostly a matter of political interest and all the studies on this hypothesis are really subjective, therefore hard to interpret. As you said, there are several oversimplifications of their population history and all the conclusions are not really scientific nor historic. From my perspective, the simple fact to justify or to deny the right of a population over a territory by their supposed genetic origin is dull.

Not only, a lot of religious conspiracy involves Jews. Even before the WW2 (the Protocols of Zion is good example of fake conspiracy). But I don't think it is the place to discuss about it.

I didn't forgot. I stopped on purpose because the list was long enough There are others funny cultures like the Khazar khaganate, an empire with nomadic origin but with their elites converted to judaism at some point Their empire reached the Aral sea.

The region have an amazing history of successive civilizations. - Andronovo and Bactria–Margiana cultures during the prehistory. - The Scythians, the Saka, the Dahae and the Parni for the iron age. - The Achaemenid Persians. - The Macedonian Empire and its successor in Persia, the Seleucids. - The Bactrian independancy and the rise of the Mauryan empire. - The split between the Indo-Greek and greco-bactrians. - The installation of the Indo-Scythians kingdom. - The rise of the Parthians in the west and the split with the Indo-Parthian dynasty in the east. - The arrival of the Tocharoi of Strabo, the Yuezhi. The foundation of the Kushan nomad empire which took the control of the region. - The reversal of the Parthians by the Sassanians in the west, the rise of the Xionites and Kidarites in the North and the expansion of the Gupta empire in the South. - The foundation of the Hephtalite empire. - The rise of the Göktürk ant the Islamic conquest for the post-Roman era.