Information About Celtic Architectural History?
Question by BlueAthame: Information about Celtic architectural history?
I’m doing a project in my honors world geography class. I have to re-create an architectural aspect of the Celts. I’ve been looking around and can’t really find anything. I’d really appreciate a link. Thanks ![]()
Also I could use some recommendation about what materials to use to re-create it.
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Answer by D
Look up Stonehenge and Woodhenge those are the most famous forms of Celtic architecture.
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Take a look at their drystone “beehive” construction technique… really fascinating buildings, and quite effective since many of them are still standing after all these centuries.
You can’t find information on this because it doesn’t really exist, except in pseudo-scientific books written by New Age crack pots. Celtic is a language family, not a cultural group. Celts were people who spoke a Celtic language. The Celts ranged from Spain and North Africa, up into the British Isles, and all the way into Eastern Europe and Turkey. They had no uniform architectural style. While the most famous examples of “Celtic” architecture are doubtlessly the various henges found throughout Britain, they aren’t representative of “Celts”, but of the people who inhabited England and Scotland a couple of thousand years before Christ. We don’t even really know if they themselves were Celts in the linguistic sense, since we can only map prehistoric culture groups through archaeological material. The only people identified in antiquity as Celts lived in central France. Herodotus called them Keltoi, Caesar and the Romans knew them as the Averni. You’ll probably have more luck finding information if you pick an actual culture rather than a broad linguistical designation.