The La Tène Celts of Bohemia

Bohemia carries a Celtic name to this day — the land of the Boii. In its northwest, the flat-grave cemeteries of Radovesice held the farmers and warriors of the La Tène centuries, the golden age of the continental Celts. Their graves were lifted one campaign at a time between 1970 and 1981, as an advancing open-cast coal mine swallowed the village and its valley whole — a Celtic cemetery rescued from beneath a spoil tip. Among the dead lies a family: a mother buried near her daughter, cousins in the same ground across generations. Isotopes in their teeth show more than half grew up elsewhere — a people genuinely on the move, in the very centuries when Celtic bands were marching on Rome and Delphi.

The genome-wide data behind this entry was published in Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age.

Every Ancestrify Global25 report includes the free Notable Matches lens: your coordinates are compared to every sequenced member of every catalog entry, and the distance to the closest member is reported — a Euclidean distance in the same 25-dimensional space the Distance lens uses. Because these are a small group of real individuals, not a population average, distances naturally run larger than population distances — that is expected, not a poor result. And one thing is never claimed: a small distance means similar ancestry composition, not that the La Tène Celts of Bohemia are your ancestor. See how it looks in the live demo or read about the full G25 analysis.

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  Who were the La Tène Celts of Bohemia?

  The La Tène Celts of Bohemia (c. 430–230 BCE, Radovesice, Bohemia, Czechia) are one of the Iconic discoveries entries in our Notable Matches catalog, represented by 12 sequenced ancient genomes published in the study "Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age".

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  What does "matching" the La Tène Celts of Bohemia mean?

  Your Global25 coordinates are compared to the entry's sequenced members and the distance to the closest one is reported — a Euclidean distance in the same 25-dimensional reference space the Distance lens uses. A notable entry is one person or one small burial group, not a population average, so distances naturally run larger than population distances.

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  Are they my ancestor?

  No — and no DNA test can show that. A small distance means your genome sits near theirs in a shared reference space: similar ancestry composition, not descent. Ancestrify never claims a notable individual is your ancestor or relative.

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  How do I see my own distance to the La Tène Celts of Bohemia?

  Notable Matches is a free lens on every Ancestrify Global25 report — never sold separately. Order the G25 analysis (29.99 EUR), and your report ranks your coordinates against the full catalog, with a portrait, dossier and map for every entry. The public demo shows the lens with example data.

The catalog holds every published entry across three tiers — browse the full Notable Matches directory. Nearby entries:

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• The Qin Ancestorsc. 400–200 BCE

• The Lost City of Teneac. 525 BCE–200 CE

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• The Carthaginiansc. 600–146 BCE

• The Pazyryk Horse-Lordsc. 500–300 BCE

• The Greeks of Ambraciac. 550–150 BCE

• The Thraciansc. 800–100 BCE

• The Gauls of the Aisnec. 500–400 BCE

• The Soldiers of Himera480 BCE

• The Dauniansc. 630–340 BCE

• The Celts of the Cornaux Bridgec. 260–80 BCE