408 THE ORIGIN OF THE SLAVS. 



in the proximity of the Baltic. Consequently, cemeteries are found 

 on the right bank of the Vistula only at a certain distance from the 

 Baltic littoral, between Graudenz and Thorn. The basin of the 

 Narew includes none. This would support the view that the Neures 

 of Herodotus, that is, the Lithuanians, occupied the basin of the 

 Narew as far as the Dniester. 



The custom of cremation and of placing the debris of the bones with 

 a few articles in urns extends as far as Scythia. It was introduced 

 along the shores of the Black Sea in the stone period with the 

 painted potteries of the pre-Mycenean period ; but from the rivei 

 San to the Dniester, cremation alone does not appear to have been 

 practiced at any period. 



Exclusively crematory cemeteries are found only where the Veneti 

 alone were established. With the exception of the marshy littoral 

 of Pomerania the territory on the Vistula and between the Vistula 

 and Oder exhibits during one period only crematory sepulchers. The 

 Veneti settled and lived there alone during many centuries, till the 

 arrival of the Goths. In the tombs of this entire region are found 

 the same styles of urns as on the lower Vistula; urns with figures, 

 with their hats and caps, and of the same material which seem to 

 prove that they are all the work of the same people. 



The region between the A-^istula and Oder embraces not only the 

 south of Pomerania and Posen, but also Silesia ; then Lusatia and the 

 south of Brandenburg. From the basins of the Oder and the Vistula 

 the crematory cemeteries extend to Moravia as far as the valley of the 

 Vaag, and the eastern and northern parts of Bohemia; while in the 

 Avestern part of that country and thence toward the Saale cremation 

 was checked by the Gauls, who kept up the custom of burial. 



Exclusively crematory cemeteries are then found in the region 

 extending from Pannonia to the Adriatic littoral and the valley of 

 the Po. And it is probable that from here one and the same people 

 spread as far as the Baltic, having almost identical customs. 



CREMATIONISTS AT PERIOD OF SPREAD OF GAULS ON THE DANUP.E OR PERIOD OF THE 



T^NE. 



With the beginning of the Tene period important changes took 

 r)lace in the condition of the people. The Gauls then made their 

 appearance south of the Danube, and that meant the cessation of 

 exclusively crematory cemeteries. Bohemia became the center of 

 the spread of the conquering Gauls in central Europe, so that burial 

 obtained there the upper hand. Tombs in rows, in which the skele- 

 tons lie on the back, accompanied with iron weapons, supplanted in 

 the west particularly the mixed sepulchers covered with tumuli. 

 Crematory cemeteries maintained themselves in Bohemia only on the 

 frontier of Lusatia in the east, and in Moravia. In fact, aided by 



