The Nation called Germany did not exist before the Germans came... So that, calling any part of Central Europe by the name "Germany" prior to their invasion is an anachronism.
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"It seems to me that the existence of a pure Germanic stock cannot be demonstrated, whether in prehistoric or in protohistoric times. We do not find in Germany a pure dolichocephalic race, tall, fair, numerous, diffused widely throughout Europe; we find instead a mixed population of varying type in all the prehistoric graves of German territory.
Von Holder, the author of a work on Wurtemberg skulls which is of fundamental importance in the study of Teutonic anthropology, has found a series of the most diverse types, Germanic, Turanian, Sarmatian, pure and mixed, in his opinion, with
no predominant Germanic type. Lissauer finds a mixture of forms among ancient Prussian skulls, while Virchow, who has examined a vast number of skulls
from old Germanic graves, finds the most varying shapes among the primitive population of Germanic soil."
--Sergi, The Mediterranean Race, p.17
Which has been adequately proven by DNA:
"
Haplogroup R1b is common in Europe, particularly in Western Europe...
Haplogroup I ... is found at highest frequencies in the Nordic countries as I1 (Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland) and in the Balkan Peninsula as I2a ... while
I2a is frequent also in Sardinia ...
Apart from the outlying Saami, all Europeans are characterised by the predominance of
haplogroups H, U and T. The lack of observable geographic structuring of mtDNA may be due to socio-cultural factors..."
Genetic history of Europe - Wikipedia
The Picts are matriarchal and so are
the Mediterranean Iberians, Ligurians, Pelasgians, & Libyans.
"Even the social and kinship terms which indicate at least that
the Proto-Indo-Europeans were patrilineal and 'patriarchal' (and possessed some form of warrior sodality) do not seem to fit the agricultural societies we find in the early Neolithic cultures of Greece and the Balkans."--Mallory, In Search Of The Indo Europeans, p.179
... and in Liguria, too:
"1. IN the second place, we shall treat of that portion of
Liguria situated in the Apennines, between the Keltica already
described and Tyrrhenia. There is nothing worth mentioning about it, except that the people dwell in villages,
ploughing
and digging the intractable land, or rather, as Posidonius expresses it,
hewing the rocks."
"Ligues" (Ligures), the earlier (Greek) name of the Sallyes, v2. 269"--Strabo
"Pliny reported that "Timaeus says there is an island named Mictis ... where tin is found, and to which the Britons cross."[12] Diodorus said that tin was brought to the island of Ictis, where there was an emporium. The last link was supplied by Strabo, who said that an emporium on the island of Corbulo in the mouth of the river Loire was associated with the Britain of Pytheas by Polybius.[13]"--wikipedia, Pytheas
Corbulo or Corbilo... same place:
"Saint-Nazaire, town and seaport, Loire-Atlantique département, Pays de la Loire région, western France. It lies on the right bank of the Loire River estuary, 38 miles (61 km) west-northwest of Nantes.
Saint-Nazaire is thought to be the site of the ancient Gallo-Roman seaport of Corbilo."
Saint-Nazaire | History, Geography, & Points of Interest
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The Dissignac tumulus is a megalithic monument located in the French commune of Saint-Nazaire, in the Loire-Atlantique department. As much the architecture of the monument as the engravings or the archaeological material found make it possible to date this monument from 4700-4500 years before our era, which makes it the oldest of the megalithic buildings of Loire-Atlantique [1]. For comparison, it is
2,000 years older than the oldest pyramid in Egypt."
Tumulus de Dissignac — Wikipédia
"Avienus makes only one direct reference to the Celts when he mentions
that beyond the tin-producing Oestrymnides was a land now occupied by the
Celts, who took it from the Ligurians."--Cunliffe, The Ancient Celts.
"Solinus ... states that 'a stormy channel separates the coast which the Damnonii occupy from the island Silura, whose inhabitants preserve the ancient manners, reject money, barter merchandise, value what they require by exchange rather than by price, worship the gods, and both men and women profess a knowledge of the future'."--Skene, Celtic Scotland,v1
As for the Greece and the Balkans, the Pelasgians are the ancient possessors. Their priests lived at the Oaks of Dodona in Epirus. From there, the Pelasgians moved into Italy where they stood with the Ligurian Aborigines
* against the invading Umbrians.
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* anachronism noun [ C ] us / əˈnæk·rəˌnɪz·əm / someone or something placed in the wrong period in history, or something that belongs to the past rather than the present: For a historical drama, the movie was filled with anachronisms.
* "Apparently both the Greek settlers and their allies the Aborigines were glad of the coming of the Tyrsenians, for they were in sore need of assistance against the ever-increasing encroachments of the Umbrian tribes. ... Besides the Etruscans and Gauls, we hear in the historical period of another people, who not only maintained themselves in the mountainous region of which Genoa may be regarded as the centre, but in all North-Western Italy and in South Western France. These are the people known to the Roman writers as Ligures, and to the Greeks as Ligyes. As they occupy the same mountainous area as that assigned to the Aborigines by Dionysius, and as Philistus of Syracuse says that the Ligyes were expelled from their homes by the Umbrians, there is no doubt that the Aborigines of Dionysius and Cato are none other than the Ligyes or Ligurians of Philistus and other writers. ... Thus according to Roman tradition
the Latini were the Aborigines, or, in other words, Ligurians, a tradition of great significance in view of the fact that the populus Romanus spoke not lingua Romana, but lingua Latina."--Ridgeway, Who Were the Romans?
"But the general idea we get from the various confused passages is that the Iberi are for Roman and Greek writers the earliest inhabitants of the Spanish peninsula, as the Ligures are of the Italian."--Peet, The Stone and Bronze Ages in Italy and Sicily, p.167
"The district round the Phocaean colony of Marseilles was inhabited by
Ligurian tribes, who held the region between the river Po and the Gulf of Genoa, as far as the western boundary of Etruria, and who probably extended to the west along the coast of Southern Gaul as far as the Pyrenees. They were distinguished from the Celtae, not merely by their manners and customs, but by their
small stature and dark hair and eyes, and are stated by Pliny and Strabo to have inhabited Spain. They have also left marks of their presence in Central Gaul in the name of the Loire (Ligur), and possibly in Britain in the obscure name of
the Lloegrians."--Dawkins, Cave Hunting
"Lucan in his Pharsalia (c. 61 AD) described Ligurian tribes as being long-haired, and their hair a shade of auburn (a reddish-brown):
Ligurian tribes, now shorn, in ancient days
First of the long-haired nations, on whose necks
Once flowed the
auburn locks in pride supreme."
Ligures - Wikipedia
"Pliny and Lucan wrote that druids did not meet in stone temples or other constructions, but in sacred groves of trees. In his Pharsalia Lucan described such a grove near Massilia in dramatic terms more designed to evoke horror among his Roman hearers than meant as proper natural history:
No bird nested in
the nemeton, nor did any animal lurk nearby;
the leaves constantly shivered though no breeze stirred.
Altars stood in its midst, and the images of
the gods.
Every tree was stained with sacrificial blood.
the very earth groaned, dead yews revived;
unconsumed trees were surrounded with flame,
and huge serpents twined round the oaks.
The people feared to approach the grove,
and even the priest would not walk there at midday
or midnight lest he should then meet its divine guardian."
Nemeton - Wikipedia
"The types of Cro-Magnon, L'Homme-Mort, and other French and Belgian localities, bear witness to the presence of an African stock in the same region in which we find
the dolmens and other megalithic monuments erroneously attributed to the Celts."--Sergi, The Mediterranean Race, p.70
"The monuments we call
Druidical, must be appropriated, exclusively, to the
Aborigines of the midland, and western divisions. They are found in such corners, and fastnesses, as have, in all ages, and countries, been the last retreat of the conquered, and the last that are occupied by the victorious."--Davies, Celtic Researches
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