Re: The Last of the Neanderthals


Douglas Clark wrote:
Oppenheimer article re book...

http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?search_term=Oppenheimer&id=7817

Douglas Clark:
Re: Oppenheimer being not-quite-reliable, Herodotus did not relate
the homeland of the Celts to the Pyrenees, as Oppenheimer would
have him have done. From the article at the URL above:

"The notion derives from a mistake made by the historian Herodotus
2,500 years ago when, in a passing remark about the "Keltoi,"
he placed them at the source of the Danube, which he thought was
near the Pyrenees."

Herodotus did not refer to "the Pyrenees".
He referred to a city with a similar name, which he said was
near the source of the Danube River.
Oppenheimer was stretching the truth to make it fit an over-extended
foray into "I know more than the experts" territory.

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Daryl Krupa

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