Tell me about your tartan, mummy

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[url]"...Celts are thought to have come originally from the southeast of Russia around the Caspian Sea, gradually heading westwards to Britain and France. Were these tartan-clad people early Scots?..."[/I]

Once again, genetics is confused with culture.

The Scots, Irish and most people even now living in the British Isles descend from a group of humans who spent the last Ice Age on the Iberian peninsula, and then re-populated the Atlantic coast northward and regions inland from it. This is shown by the prevalance of Y-DNA haplogroup R1b among us.

The Celts were part of a culture that at one time encompassed most of Europe, and consisted of several different groups of peoples. Culture includes things such as folkways, language, clothing, diet, specific modes of manufacture, etc.

E.g., during the colonial period some Africans were enslaved, taken to the Carolinas, sold to Scots colonials, eventually learned Gaelic, exchanged their religion and folkways for that of Scots, worshipped in Gaelic, etc. Did they become Celts? One could say that they did. Did their DNA change because of it? Not a chance.