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Well, why not? Gaul could emulate Greeks as well as Romans and import new architecture and so on. But iut's typical for an newspaper to go straight on assuming that *therefore* all the Gauls lived like this. Which is, as archaeology also has shown, not a correct image.
And to ask Uderzo to change Asterix is ludicrous.
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.....and let us not forget the Celts were technologically the most advanced metal-workers of their day, especially in iron - the Romans essentially move from bronze to Iron helmets after long contact with Gallic iron-workers for example, and the Celts were the first to make long swords.
Not to mention that most wondrous of armours, mail ! ......
Their technological 'edge' in iron-working was undoubtedly a factor in their great expansion.
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Archaeology is always an important force to reminded (or to show us for the first time) that history is far most complex (and interesting) than sometimes we tend to assume; it gives us a more complex look at ancient times and a view that is not biased by some traditional images. Archaeology and reenactment are most valuable at that understanding.
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The Gauls had a completely different style of life than the Romans. While our Latin precursors preferred living in towns, from what I read gauls like to be mobile, and not get ''tied down'' anywhere.
Off course, there may have been exceptions. But to say they were backwards is a far from the truth, as this archaeological find confirms. As celts, their metal working skills were matched by very few.
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Buildings of that style would nicely help explain the lock and key mechanisms found at the Oppidum in Manching, Germany.
The fact that there are locks suitable for structures (as opposed to "padlocks") would seem to indicate that they were using them on something more substantial than wattle and daub roundhouses with the stereotypical hide and fabric "doors".