How the Celts Came to Britain: Druids, Ancient Skulls and the Birth of ArchaeologyThis book reveals how the Celts came to Britain in the sense of how the term 'Celtic' first became associated with the British Isles in the eighteenth century and then gradually took on its modern popular meaning towards the end of the nineteenth. The role of the druids and the importance of craniology in this process is emphasised. |
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Acknowledgements | 7 |
LANGUAGES | 19 |
Romancing the Druids | 35 |
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ancient Britain ancient Celts Anderson anthropology antiquarian Antiquities archaeology argued argument artefacts BAAS Report barrow-diggers barrows Beddoe British Association British Isles Britons Bronze Age Celtae Celtic art Celtic languages Celtic Nations Celtic Revival Christian Colt Hoare Colt Hoare's craniology culture Davis described discipline Douglas Druidical Druidism Druids early Edinburgh edition eighteenth century ethnologists ethnology Europe European Evans evidence excavations Franks Gaelic Gaul Horae Ferales Ibid idea inhabitants Ireland Iron Age Islands James James Cowles Prichard John Jones Kemble Latham Lhuyd linguistic London Lubbock material remains megaliths modern monuments Munro Museum nineteenth century origins ornament past period Pezron pre-Roman prehistoric Prichard race racial religion Rhind Lectures Roman Rowlands Saxon Scandinavian Scotland Scottish skulls Society of Antiquaries sources Stone Age Stonehenge study of Celtic Stukeley Stukeley's Tène term Celtic theory three-age system Thurnam tion Toland tracing tradition tribes Wales Welsh William William Stukeley Wilson Wiltshire Worsaae Worsaae's