Who Lived In Spain Before the Romans? | Iron Age Iberia c. 1000 - 300 BC 

Cutting out the area of Portugal from the map when dealing with these ancient times is somewhat questionable.

mans straight up got sponsored by an entire city

Cheers to Lugo's city hall for sponsoring this, i'm pleasantly surprised by this move

More pre-Roman history please!

The Lady of Elche is one of the most amazing pieces of ancient art. Her headgear looks almost like cyberpunk.

In modern day central Spain, there are still many villages that possess verracos, rustic statues of bulls made by the Celts.

Iberian history is neat. Haven't even watched the video yet but I already know im in for a good time

I've been begging every ancient history youtuber I follow to cover pre roman Spain!!!!! Thank you so much!!!!!

Many thanks to the City of Lugo for Sponsoring yet another great History with Hilbert video about Spain!

I find Iberia fascinating in all eras, and I loved this! Thank you!

Extra fun fact about the "Coast of Hyraxes" name. The name likely came from the rabbits that were extremely common in the area, and they used the name hyrax since they were the closest animals the knew. So yes, the name of Spain may well mean "Rabbit Land"

Wow.. Im spanish and i always loved the classical era.. the fact that i didnt know about half of the things in this video and what was going on in lugo is beyond me. Thanks to you and the lugo city for making this video posible and planning ahead my next year vacations. Well done!

Excellent video with great narration, thorough history, relevant etymology and showing how the history in question ties into other peoples and areas. Instant subscription

This is the coolest sponsorship I've seen in a very very long time! Big credit to the Council of Lugo - what an excellent way to spend an advertising budget!

I never expected a city of my country to sponsor Hilbert. It's so random, but also so cool!

At this time of history, letting Portugal out feels a bit like making a hole in the map. I don't think historians or geographers at the time made a distinction and, indeed, it would have felt more natural to talk about Spain and Portugal together. A very good video overall, though.

I love this! You use the one area, Spain, to cover so many cultures in such detail! More of this please, any ancient part of the world would be amazing.

Ahhh I’ve been waiting for this for quite a while… glad to know you’re on top of this, you truly are the best Hilbert.

I'm amazed because the Celts were everywhere! From Ireland to Turkey.

This was absolutely fantastic! Thank you very much for your excellent research!

For those thinking of going to Lugo.... the food is amazing, one of the best in Spain and seafood/shellfish being one of the best in the world. Not to be missed.

I made an Imperator:Rome campaign where I unified the celtiberans as the Arevaci, without knowing they where the ones who did irl

Maybe the existence of P in certain Celtic names in the Iberian peninsula, comes from the influence of the Lusitanians, who also had an Indo-European language, but distinguished from the Celtic languages ​​by the existence of the p.

This is one of your best vids ever! More of this please, more detailed info about the very very ancient world.

I assume based on the fact this didn't include Portugal we should expect a full video on the subject

Cracking video! As a former archaeologist who's just moved to Aragón in the North East of Spain, I've been fascinated by the wealth of prehistoric sites and mix of languages here! Definitely gonna try to check out the Lugo festival if it's on next year.

Very interesting. The story about how different cultures have arisen, evolved, combined with, conquered, or been conquered by others resulting the geographical pattern of languages, cultures, and peoples we have today is absolutely fascinating! Do it for Iberia some more and do it for everywhere you can get to please!

The animations with the music together are brilliant. **chef's kiss**

Lugo is where my ancestors come from, I'd love to visit. So cool that they sponsored the video.

Irish Celts come from Iberia based on their own original mythology and scientific studies and the ones in Scotland from Ireland so it would explain that linguistic link compared to the Welsh being rather different linguistically even if they're both the same overall language family

Great video. So interesting to get a less covered topic and what a brilliant sponsor. Money very well spent by Lugo

Amazing video, always look forward to your content!

There is a heavy ancient Iberian influence in Wales and Ireland, possibly Cornwall.

Please do one of pre-Roman Portugal. Viriathus and the Lusitanian War is an epic that can’t be missed! :)

I was JUST looking for a video like this, about prehistoric Spain.

Love to watch videos about ancient Iberia because they mention Gadir ;). Thanks Lugo!

another great video! i like the pre remon history!

Some of my ancestors were Basques, I have even met some of their direct descendants who are distantly related to me, this is an extremely informative video, I loved it and makes me wanna know more. Thank you.

Phenomenal as Always! Cheers mate!

Awesome. This video answered all my questions this is exactly what i was lookiny for.

20:00 ". . . used both for stabbing and for thrusting" suggests that there is a distinction between these two actions. But "stabbing" is defined as "to kill . . . someone by pushing a knife or other sharp object into their body" while "thrusting" is defined as "to put something somewhere with a quick hard push." "Thrusting" seems to be a necessary component of "stabbing"

Love these history videos learn more on RU-vid of history then ever did at school

Awesome video - thanks so much!

thoroughly interesting and endlessly informative, thanks so much

Actually, Basque people are genetically related to the CeltIberians. DF27 is the parent haplogroup of celtiberians ( R-M167) which originated around 500 BC and Basques (R-M153) which originated around 0 AD and branched off DF27 after R-M167. All three haplogroups are found in modern day Basque people. Some Celtiberians were descendants from Tartesos. Check out Guarena in Spain. Its where my family originates.

Very interesting. Talking about pre Roman Iberian peninsula you should also included Portugal.

Wonderful information. Thanks!

Awesome video... comprehensive and detailed

Realising only through this that the name of Iberia is pre-Indo-European. The river names of Ebro, Eber- are one of the very few examples where we have relics of those languages.

This would make a great series, maybe one for the balkans and Illyria before the Romans, I find it really hard to get info about that region before the Romans and later Slavs

Clear, simple but accurate and with nuanced ideas and references ,very good 👍

Thank you for covering this

Me parece increíble que el ayuntamiento de Lugo haya patrocinado a Hilbert. Osea, han sido super visionarios

On the Basque-Iberian connection: as a historical linguist, I can affirm with certainty that counting systems are a poor diagnostic tool for genealogical relationships. Many languages borrow not only the terms themselves (think Japanese from Chinese, Greenlandic from Danish, etc) but also the systems themselves (think French from Celtic). Core vocabulary and morpheme paradigms are still the best way to establish a connection, without those it becomes very speculative.

Brilliant video - thanks!

Well done, Hilbert. Very well done.

Finally, the Iberians barely get any recognition these days. Thanks for talking about'em.

The romans took over the already existing name Hispania from the Carthagineans. In the punic language "ishebanim" meant island of the shaban, a small animal they knew from Phoenicia, today called "Rock Hyrax" (a very small distinct relative of the elephant) . They just transferred that name to the equally sized local rabbits. One could almost say that Hispania translates to "Island of the rabbits"......

Late 2021 here. I have not watched one of your videos for about 18 months. You sound great. You’ve made a lot of progress in your presentations.

Thanks so much for the Documentary! Very enlightening :)

I noticed a mistake at 15:44: in IPA does not represent [kw]. It represents the voiceless uvular stop.

Really enjoyed this video, be great if you could cover the area currently part of Portugal. Lots of great history along the Guadiana and the resources in that area

Most informative. Will subscribe. The ethnic depiction of people was excellent

Great job dude!!

10:09 - 10:13 "Lit riches"? I've never thought I'd hear such a phrase in my entire life.

Seguramente estamos todos los españoles fangirleando ahora mismo con Hilbert. ¿Un guiri hace un vídeo objetivo y súper interesante sobre Españita? Tienes mi respeto, admiración y espada por si la necesitas algún dia ;)

Excellent video. Thanks

Thank you Hilbert!

I love Spain. Looking forward to this.

Loved that call-out to the city council of Lugo, expecially considering today is celebrated the Lughnasadh, in honour of the Celtic God Lugh (whom the city is named after).

Very interesting, thanks!

Great video. Muy buen trabajo

Really cool that you got sponsored by a city!

Pre-Roman Spain isn't talked about nearly enough . Thank you for this

Muchissimas gracias, for a breathtaking marathon run through (" only ") 1 stage of Soain' s history!

Nice video & cheers from Santander, Cantabria!.

Always here for Bronze and Iron age history and prehistory, and for looking into past cultures and civs. And doesn't the Halstatt origin theory have a lot more evidence than the Atlantic origin theory?

I'm glad you spoke about my ancestors the tartessos :) we still have a village called "Tharsis"

All this info is gold for me fantastic vedio

Something really cool about the iberian peninsula is a that it was a refuge from the great glaciation, which made the genetic makeup of the local people an absolute massive mixture to the point that we cant know the influence of the different peoples that came through it because their genetics were already in the pool

Fun video, please talk more on the history and culture of the Celts.

I'm glad to see you being sponsored by Lugo! Been from Málaga, I'll have a serious talk with our mayor so we don't miss any other opportunities like this one ;) (Having read a comment from a portuguese neighbour, it would probably be a good idea to at least include Portugal in your maps, can't really talk about your research, but you definitely speak a lot about Spain while meaning Hispania, wich isn't really a great sign)

very good video, and very easy to understand. Un video muy bueno, muy facil de entender.

I love your picts series- I'd looooove more videos from this time period actually! It's not one I know much about.

First time ever a sponsorship is working for me.

You should make a video on the aboriginal canarians or guanches.

Well done: absolutely fascinating-you have sent me down all sorts of rabbit holes. First, could you cite your sources: they may well be in Spanish, but that just adds to the challenge! Second, the parallels between the culture in the 5th and 6th centuries BCE in Iberia and those in parts of Britain in the 5th and 6th centuries CE are fascinating: I am in process of reading Robin Fleming's Britain after Rome, and when you said the 5th and 6th centuries without specifying BCE, I thought you were talking of CE. Finally, I am interested in your pronunciation of Iberia and Iberian. Usually you are adamant that a name should be pronounced as it is by the natives (which, while complimenting the natives can cause confusion when speaking to a monoglot English speaker), but here you say the words in their accepted English form, with an anglicised initial 'i' and the stress on the first syllable, whereas I, who, as I say, usually feel it better to use the accepted English form, while adopting the English stress, use a Spanish initial 'I'. All that proves, of course, is that we all have our oddities, and the world is a more interesting place that we have! Keep up the good work, and anything further on Iberia and the Iron Age in general would be good, if only because I know so little of it, and what I do is long out of date.

I lived in Spain for two years on the east coast and loved the history there I looked forward to more. Have you read ,Spain the root and the flower? It's a great book on Spain in general

What are background songs you used for ‘Celts’ and ‘Celtiberians’ sections? They're amazing and I want to listen them all day!😄

Love Spain! So beautiful, so free, so unique!

This is great. My family came from Asturias and this helps fill in some blanks. It makes me more curious because you mention the p / q distinction. My family name dePoo reflects the place name Poo de Llanes even though my family lived in Cue for at least 400 years. I wonder what happened over the years. I imagine the history goes back to the caves there and wish to learn more!

What a great vid

I can see Nicola and Wee Mhairi frothing over a Scottish World when Hilbert finally reaches about the Celts.

Very interesting. I live in New Mexico. My family is Spanish and traces back to Spain at some point when they colonized Mexico. Just trying to get an idea of where my earliest roots stem from. Definitely left me with more questions then answers, but more interested! Thanks.

as much as I enjoy the info boyo boyo I just ADORE your voice is like a yellow warmish breeze

Saved to my travel list, I’d like very much to go to that festival.

Super interesting! I am an American but... that just means I was born here. My parents were both born in Cuba but all my grand parents are from Spain. My mom still has the Spanish lisp thing since her parents are from Galicia. My dads folks are south eastern Spaniards ( Andalucía or Murcia , he isn't sure).

Could you perhaps make a video about the connection with the Celts and the British isles / Scottish (Pictish) and Irish cultures?

Great job with this video! Something else I think is interesting to talk about is the town of "Los millares" in south-east spain, it dates from 3000BC and it is supposed to have been the biggest town in europe at its time

Goed bezig, Herman. :)