Editing Scordisci (section)

==Origin==
The Scordisci were a [[Celts|Celtic]] group formed after the [[Gallic invasion of the Balkans]],<ref>{{harvnb|Wilkes|1992|p=84}} "Autariatae at the expense of the Triballi until, as Strabo remarks, they in their turn were overcome by the Celtic Scordisci ..."</ref> or rather a "Celtic political creation"<ref>{{harvnb|Mócsy|1974|p=12}} "the Scordisci ... are to be regarded merely one of the Celts' political creations and not as a Celtic tribe..."</ref> having mixed with the local [[Thracians]] and [[Illyrians]].<ref name="hÓgáin2002">{{cite book|author=Dáithí Ó hÓgáin|title=The Celts: A History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-yd1huHoXJwC|year=2002|publisher=Boydell Press|isbn=978-0-85115-923-2|page=60|quote=... element among the more numerous local populations of Thracians and Illyrians. The most powerful such new group of mixed Celts was the Scordisci...}}</ref> Their tribal name may be connected to the ''[[Šar Mountains#Etymology|Scordus]]'', the [[Šar Mountains|Šar Mountain]].<ref name="Prichard">{{cite book|author=James Cowles Prichard|title=The eastern origin of the Celtic nations proved by a comparison of their dialects with the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin and Teutonic languages|year=1831|url=https://archive.org/details/easternorigince02pricgoog|orig-date=1831|isbn=0-543-79440-7|quote=The name Scordisci is from the mountain Scordus, and the Scordisci are Kelts.}}</ref> The personal names are noted to have been subsequently Illyricized,{{when|date=December 2014}} having South Pannonian–North Dalmatian influence.<ref>{{harvnb|Mócsy|1974|p=66}} [referring to personal names]: "...the names of the Scordici are south Pannonian-north Dalmatian, ie they have been Illyricized."</ref> According to [[Onomastics|onomastic]] evidence, Scordiscan settlements to the east of the [[Great Morava|Morava River]] were Thracianized.<ref>{{harvnb|Mócsy|1974|p=?}}</ref> In parts of [[Moesia]] (''northeast [[Central Serbia]]'') the Scordisci and Thracians lived beside each other, which is evident in the archeological findings of pits and treasures, spanning from the 3rd century BC to the 1st century BC.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://eprints.jiia.it:8080/148/1/Luca_dacian-warriors.pdf |title=Tombs of Dacian warriors (2nd-1st C. BC) found in Hunedoara-Grădina Castelului (Hunedoara County) |date=January 2007|author=Valeriu Sîrbu |author2=Sabin Adrian Luca |author3=Cristian Roman |access-date=2010-09-21  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718170142/http://eprints.jiia.it:8080/148/1/Luca_dacian-warriors.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-18 }}</ref>

The Scordisci were found during different timelines in [[Illyria]], [[Thrace]] and [[Dacia]], sometimes splitting into more than one group like the ''Scordisci Major'' and the ''Scordisci Minor''.<ref name="HaeusslerKing2007">{{cite book|author1=Ralph Haeussler|author2=Anthony C. King|author3=Phil Andrews|title=Continuity and Innovation in Religion in the Roman West|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GEtoAAAAMAAJ|date=1 January 2007|publisher=Journal of Roman Archaeology|isbn=978-1-887829-67-0|quote=... have constituted the population of the Scordisci, divided into the Scordisci Maior west of the Velika Morava river and the Scordisci Minor east of it...}}</ref>

Extensive [[La Tene culture|La Tène]] type finds, of local production, are noted in Pannonia as well as northern [[Moesia Superior]], attesting to the concentration of Celtic settlements and cultural contacts. However, such finds south of the Sava river are scarce.<ref>{{harvnb|Mócsy|1974|p=26}} "Recent excavations have produced La Tène finds in the northern part of Moesia Superior, in the territory of the Scordisci, in the southern part of this province, where the Scordisci were only temporarily in control, the influence of La Tène culture is not attested."</ref>

Patterson et al. 2022 analyzed one Late La Tène 150-50 BCE sample of a 25-35 male adult from grave which contained weaponry and dog skeleton in today's town of [[Osijek]], Croatia. He carried the [[Human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup|Y-DNA haplogroup]] [[Haplogroup R1b#R1b1b (R-V88)|R1b-V88]] (> R-BY17643<ref name="YFull">{{cite web|url=https://www.yfull.com/tree/R-BY17643/|title=R-BY17643 YTree v10.03.00|date=16 May 2022|publisher=YFull.com|access-date=18 May 2022}}</ref>) and [[Human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup|mtDNA haplogroup]] [[Haplogroup J (mtDNA)|J1c12]]. In a three-way admixture model, he approximately had 53.5% [[Early European Farmers]], 38.3% [[Western Steppe Herders]] and 8.2% [[Western Hunter-Gatherer]]-related ancestry.<ref name="Patterson2022">{{Cite journal|last1=Patterson|first1=Nick|last2=Isakov|first2=Michael|last3=Booth|first3=Thomas|display-authors=1|date=2022|title=Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04287-4_reference.pdf|journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]|volume=601|issue=7894|pages=588–594|doi=10.1038/s41586-021-04287-4|pmid=34937049|pmc=8889665 |bibcode=2022Natur.601..588P |s2cid=245509501|quote=sample ID I26735}}</ref>