6th October 2011, 05:53 PM
mpoole Wrote:No, I'm not baiting you, I'm genuinely interested where the term Celtic would fit in if terms such as Romano-British were dropped by the wayside. I try to avoid using it at all but there seems to be that persistence in the minds of a significant number of people (mostly non-archaeological, granted) that insist that it's a valid term to use in describing archaeology and culture.
How do you cure that sort of misuse?
I have had a few discussions around this both with people from the Uk and other EU countries , I think alot of the misuse as you call it comes from very compact courses at school or books that really dont explain what was happening at the time as well as very short tv programmes. I think both the terms romano-british and celtic terms are wrong as they lead to the false impression that everyone and everything at that time was either the same people or living under the same influences.