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logna betrays miicli the same grade of skill in manufacture as the one 

 from Watsch. Its flat development is shown by the accompXing 

 cut. The scenes represented are not dissimilar. The boxers armed 

 with the cestus, the chariots, and horses closely resemble 

 one another. :^o doubt of a close intercourse be- 

 tween the two regions of Bologna and Austria 

 fc ^^^ possibly exist. 

 y/^^^ I1ie influence of the second or na- 



element in prehistoric 

 Italian civilization ap- 

 pears most clearly in the 

 Etruscan period. Etruria, 

 lyiug south of the Apen- 

 nines, was more essentially 

 Italian, as we might ex- 

 pect, than the region about 

 Bologna, where the Um- 

 bro-Hallstatt or conti- 

 nental culture flourished. 

 It is easy to note the su- 

 periority in the former 

 case. It is most clearly 

 indicated in the pottery. 

 Here we find an art which 

 is truly indigenous to the 

 climate and soil of the 

 Mediterranean. 



Popularly, the word 

 " Etruscan " at once sug- 

 gests the ceramic art; the 

 ress effected in a short 

 was certainly start- 



To give an idea of 

 the sudden change, we have 

 reproduced upon page 30 illus- 

 trations of typical bits of Italian pot- 

 tery.* The first vase, prior to the full 

 Etruscan culture, shows its crudity at once, 

 both in its defects of form and the plainness and 

 simplicity of its ornamentation. Such a vessel miffht 

 have been made in Mexico or even by our own Pueblo Indians In 

 a century or two some teacher made it possible to produce the sample 



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* From Montelius, ISg*?. 



