THE ORIGIN OF THE SLAVS." 



By Professor Zaborowski. 

 Professor of ctlinofirapliu, Ecole crAiithropoIoi/ic, Paris. 



SEPARATION OF SLAVS FRO^I PROTO-ARYANS. 



In another article \)y the present writer '' there Avas discussed the 

 question of tlie original home of the Greeks, the Umbro-Latins, the 

 Gauls, and the Germans. Though histor}^ does not toll us the 

 exact period of the departure of those peoples from the proto-Aryan 

 territor}^, Ave can nevertheless trace them back to the very borders 

 of that time. 



The Greeks were the first to find their historic home, but the story 

 of their migrations hither is lost. We have, however, in all proba- 

 bility, remains of their ancient sojourn northeast of the Adriatic, in 

 the varied artistic potteries found in such abundance in neolithic vil- 

 lages, as at Butmir, near Serayevo in Bosnia. 



The Umbro-Latins, Avho came from the northeast, may be studied 

 at a time when they were still in close relation with the region of 

 the Danube.^ 



The home of the proto-Gauls adjoined the proto-Aryan territory, 

 and Avas formerW confounded Avith it. It has noAv been definitely 

 located along the upper Rhine and the upper Danube, Avhence it 

 reached to more or less fixed limits nortliAvard and eastAvard. 



The original home of the proto-Germans I place, on the basis 

 of archeological and even historical data, in the region Avest of the 

 Baltic, 



(i Abstract, by permission of the author, from Origines des Slaves, by M. 

 Zaborowski, in Bulletins et Memoires cle la Societe d'Anthropologie de Paris, 

 Paris, 1904, 5th series. Vol. Y, pt. G, pp. 671-720. 



6 For other articles on the Slavs by Professor Zabrowski, see Revue de I'EcoIe 

 d'Anthropologie for January, 1905 ; also the same Revue for January, 1906, 

 under the title Penetration des Slaves et Transformation Cephalique en Boheme 

 et sur la Vistula. (The same author has in preparation similar papers on the 

 Lithuanians and the Finns.) 



c See Revue Scientifique, February IS, 1905, 



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