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becomes covered by the urn field culture of the Slavs. A few spots 
of the La Tene culture are known, however, even from this country. 
DEDUCTIONS. 
The above brief review of the results of modern archeological and 
anthropological research in the lands of the present Czechoslovak 
Republic leads to the following deductions : 
These territories have been peopled uninterruptedly since at least 
the early neolithic period, notwithstanding the influence and re- 
peated invasions of outside peoples. The culture changed from time 
to time, but we may always observe the transitional changes from 
the older to the newer conditions, showing that there was no actual 
interruption. But the influx of various ethnic elements resulted in 
the gradual formation of a mixed people, composed of remnants of 
the old elements, as well as of the more recent comers. Due to the 
preponderant eventual influence of the Slav tribes, this population 
enters the historical arena as the Czechoslovak people, but the physical 
characteristics of this people show for long and even to this day their 
rather heterogeneous origin and admixture. 
Taking Bohemia alone we find that arclieologically and in rough 
lines the country is divided into three large areas. (See fig. 1.) 
The central area was evidently peopled first and uninterruptedly 
from diluvial times. This area saw the development and passing of 
practically all the cultures of the country, though it was not influenced 
by all in the same degree. 
The second area, the southwest, but sparsely peopled in early times, 
later remains long in the hold of the Keltic mound people, who 
eventually fuse with the Slavonic arrivals. 
The third area, the northeast, also but sparsely peopled in the 
earlier times, becomes later the home of a people whose remains are 
deposited in the cremation urn-burial fields. This is the old Slav 
territory, the people of which with new additions from their sources 
farther northeast eventually prevail over all the country and give 
it its subsequent marked character. 
In Moravia we have no mounds, and we may only recognize, outside 
of the diluvial and the neolithic periods, the northern Slavic urn- 
field area and a southern portion with cultural diversity. Slovakia 
resembles Moravia, except perhaps in respect of the diluvial epoch, 
but a great deal of research remains to be made in this country that 
for so long was blighted by the Magyar domination. Of Russinia 
we know as yet but very little arclieologically. 
ARCHEOLOGY VS. HISTORY. 
Meager early historical accounts speak of the Boii as the oldest 
inhabitants of Bohemia, and of the Kotini as those of Moravia. Both 
