Talk:Celts/@comment-86.136.83.236-20101016154223/@comment-4673267-20150602210121

Just to clear a few things up: The Celts were Indo-European peoples, which means they descended from the Proto-Indo-Europeans, from whom also the Germanic, Slavic, Iranian peoples, the Greeks, Hittites, Armenians etc descended. And yes, this makes all these peoples distantly related. The Proto-Indo-Europeans settled north and east of the Black Sea 4000 to 3000 BC. The La Tene culture probably was a late iron age predecessor of the Celts. It spanned most of continental Europe, with its center at modern day Switzerland and Austria. The term "Aryans" has fallen out of favor among scholars since the second half of the 20th century for obvious reasons.