User:Garrett Olmsted

Garrett Olmsted is a retired professor of anthropology and linguistics, specializing in the Iron-Age archaeology of France and the British Isles, and Celtic languages and epic literature. He has taught at Harvard (PhD), Cornell (Society for the Humanities), the University of Missouri, Columbia (Research Assistant), and Bluefield State College (Full Professor, now Emeritus). His interests are archaeology, art, culture, languages, and religions of ancient Europe and the ancient the Near East. His specializations are 50 years of researching and writing about the Gundestrup cauldron and 4 years of researching and writing about the Chiemsee cauldron (both produced in Armorica 80-55 BC) and what they tells us about Celtic religion (See The Gods of the Celts and the Indo-Europeans Revised (1994-2019) on Academia), and about early Celtic Art (see Celtic Art in Transition during the First Century BC Revised (2001-2022) on Academia. His other major interest has been The Gaulish Calendar (1992-2021) also on Academia, about which he has published a great deal.