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[Mitchell-Atkins]

Revisiting Migrations in Archaeology:: The Aisne-Marne and the Hunsrück-Eifel Cultures

https://www.researchgate.net/publication...l_Cultures

Towards New Lands: The Champagne – Italy ConnectionFollowing  this  overview  of  migrations,  I  will  now  discuss  two  specific  Iron Age  case  studies  which provide  evidence  of  population  movements:  the Aisne-Marne  Culture of  the  French  Champagne  and the Hunsrück-Eifel Culture of the Middle Rhine-Moselle region, with special focus on the latter (see summary in Fernández-Götz [2014], with further references).  Both regions witnessed increased social hierarchisation during the fifth century BC, which led to the erection of some of the most notable graves of the Early La Tène period and (in the case of Hunsrück-Eifel Culture) of a series of important fortified hilltop centres (Figure 2).  With more than 200 examples corresponding to the beginning of the Early La Tène period, Champagne has the greatest concentration of chariot graves of the entire ‘Celtic’ world (Demoule 1999; Diepeveen-Jansen 2001). However, around 400 BC or shortly afterwards, a sharp demographic decline occurred, which suggests  a massive  exodus of  the local  population. The exhaustive  tables published  by Charpy (2009) leave no doubt about the decline in population: the number of cemeteries that were used during the second half of the fifth century BC is 162 (excluding doubtful cases), compared to only 36 with evidence from the first decades of the fourth century BC.  These demographic changes have generally been linked with the so-called ‘Celtic migrations’ described in the Classical sources, and above all with the movement of transalpine populations to the Italic Peninsula (Kaenel 2007; Schönfelder 2010; Tomaschitz 2002). As Evans (2004: 227) summarises: The depopulation of  the region can  be directly linked  to the Galli/Keltoi  migrations discussed  in the classical histories. The temporal association is clear, similar artefact styles appear in the Italian peninsula at about the same time […], and it is obvious the populations described by the classical accounts came from somewhere. The association between the two events may not be absolute, but the correlation between the events creates a reasonable hypothesis (Figure 3).   
The displacement of a considerable part of the population of the  Champagne  to  new  lands would thus seem certain; rarely in protohistory do we find such a clear correlation between migrations mentioned in the written sources and archaeological data...On occasion,  the  decline in  archaeological data in  La Tène B  has been  postulated  as the  result of  the population emigrating to east Yorkshire, giving rise to the chariot burials of the ‘Arras Culture’.

I quote this because the FGC47869 polygon area doesn't include any of the Gaulish tribes traditionally listed as Cisalpine tribes or Iron Age British tribes...the possible exception being the Catalauni on the western edge of the polygon, dwelling in the Champagne region; which may be related to the British Catuvellauni tribe.  

But the folks involved in the "massive exodus" from the Marne and Moselle areas had to go somewhere.  Note:  Per the paper, this was not a "total exodus"

As I mentioned before, so far U152 doesn't appear in Britain until after 400 BC, so this exodus may explain how FGC47869>FGC12401>FGC47875 ended up in Britain and Italy.  

Comparison between Late Iron Age objects found in Marne (France) and Marzabotto (Italy) (after Mortillet 1871).

Interestingly, Marzabotto is located in the Boii part of Cisalpine Gaul, 12 miles SW of Bolgna.

By the 4th century BCE, the site was occupied by the Gaulish Boii, and it became a Roman colony and municipium with the name of Bonōnia in 196 BCE.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bologna

The Boii were first mentioned as a possibility for explaining how FGC47875 ended up in Italy & Hungary by Shamash in 2017

Shamash Jul 19, 2017, 10:23 PM

The Boii were a Celtic tribe attested in the 4th century BC in Italy and later in what is modern Hungary:

https://genoplot.com/discussions/topic/1...8-et-al/61