Those touchy-feely Celts

“The Celts were long considered a barbaric and violent society. But new findings from a 2,600-year-old grave in Germany suggest the ancient people were much more sophisticated than previously thought.”

http://www.dw.de/archeologists-revise-image-of-ancient-celts/a-16528844

(First thought: It sometimes seems that in the last 20 or so years every ethnic group and every race has been determined less violent and less war-like than previously believed, except the Romans. And then I read this:

(“Roman writers in particular described the heterogeneous people as barbaric, only excelling in violence and war. But that's a distorted view, according to Dirk L. Krausse from Baden-Wurttemberg's state office for historic preservation.”

(So even when the Romans were writing about other peoples, they were wrong.

(And another thing: Being “more sophisticated” does not make a people any less violent.)

Linked from http://gatesofvienna.net/2013/01/gates-of-vienna-news-feed-1222013/#more-22584