410 THE ORIGIN OF THE SLAVS. 



stadtian period continued to maintain itself, there is still more rea- 

 son to assume that it would survive in regions free from great 

 conquests. When it shall be proved that in the territories where cre- 

 mation alone prevailed, as in the homes of the independent Veneti, 

 the population has never been exterminated or dispossessed, then it 

 will also be proved (since these regions are at present Slav), first, 

 that the Veneti were of Slavic tongue, and, second, that the Slavs 

 settled in these very countries in the period of the Hallstadtian civi- 

 lization. 



III. 



PRIORITY or THE HALLSTADTIAN CEMETERIES TO CREMATION IN 

 PANNONIA AND ILLYRIA. 



It has been seen that in Pannonia the cremationists of the Hall- 

 stadtian period were, at the period of the Tene, invaded by a burying 

 people, and that the latter almost completely disappeared toward 

 the Roman jjeriocl at the beginning of the present era. 



In the north of Bohemia and in Moravia, between the Vistula and 

 the Oder, such an intrusion of the burying people at the same perio<l 

 is not recorded, because no Gallic invasions there took place, and the 

 crematory cemeteries remained long undisturbed, even down to 

 about the present era. Considering that the number of bronze 

 objects found in these cemeteries far surpasses those of iron, and 

 noting the absence of arms, iron being used only for ornaments, they 

 must be dated at least as far back as the Hallstadtian period. And 

 since nearly identical cemeteries, with similar contents, are also 

 found in lower Austria, it must be concluded that these finds on the 

 Vistula represent not merely an archaic industry, Avhich owed its 

 continuous existence to its isolation and remoteness from intercourse, 

 but rather that these purely crematory cemeteries north of the Dan- 

 ube are the work of peoples of the same origin and of the same civi- 

 lization who came there during the Hallstadtian period. That the 

 crematory cemeteries of the Vistula and the Hallstadtian cemeteries 

 of Pannonia and Illyria coincided more or less in time is, moreover, 

 evident from the fact that permanent commercial relations existed 

 between the peoples of the Adriatic and those of the Baltic before the 

 iron age, the Tene period, and the Gallic conquests. 



In the 207 tumuli opened at Glasinac in 1895 and 1896 there were 

 found, among other objects, 1,885 amber beads. These tombs date 

 between 1100 and 500 B. C. The amber indicates relations between 

 Illyria and the Baltic prior to the fifth century B. C. In Italy the 

 custom of cremation was introduced at the latest between 1000 and 

 1100 B. C., more likely earlier, so that in Italy, as well as at 

 Glasinac, there is a correspondence between the spread of this cus- 



