scotland

[waltlewis]

what is the origin of the scotish people

[maxximus]

or the ' dal riada ' http://www.kessler-web.co.uk/History/FeaturesB ritain/BritishMap.htm

[Octavius]

It depends at which point you define �origin�. It is not until the Roman Empire reached Scotland (80 AD) that records began to be kept and at that time the settlers were the Picts, a confederation of tribes and the descendants of the Caledonii and other tribes named by Roman historians or found on the world map of Ptolemy. Pictland, also known as Pictavia, became the Kingdom of Alba during the 10th century and the Picts became the Fir Alban, the men of Scotland.

The Caledonians (Caledonii), is a name given by historians to a group of the indigenous peoples of Scotland during the Iron Age which the Romans initially included as Britons, but later distinguished as the Picts. There is no known record of what the Caledonii called themselves. In addition to the Caledones, other known tribes were:

Cornovii, Smertae, Caereni,Carnonacae, Creones, Vacomagi, Venicones, Taexali, Carvetti, Novantae, Epidii, Damnonii, Selgovae and Votadini, plus a few more obscure ones.

The Roman period marks the origins of the birth of the nation, but archaeological evidence from 8,500BC (Cramond) and 3,000 (Skara Brae) years prior to the Roman period (prehistoric) shows there were Neolithic settlers in Scotland. Neanderthal sites have been found in the south of England and in Ireland, and it is very likely that early man made their way to Scotland, though no traces have been found, apart from the spread of Celtic languages such as Gaelic, Welsh, Gaulish and Brythonic found scribed on stones and monuments in Scotland (Ogham etc).

There is no known record of what the tribes called themselves, other than the latin terms we have in historic records today.