The bronze age and the Celtic world - Universal History Library

122 THE BRONZE AGE AND THE CELTIC WORLD
discovered in this region, the most famous of which is that at Glasinatz in Bosnia.''
Others pushed up the Save, which runs through mountains of an easily worked iron
ore ; evidence of early workings have been found on the banks of the Mur in Styria
and on the upper Drave in Carinthia.'®
A Uttle later, between looo and 900 B.C., some of these people passed over into
Italy. They may have crossed the Adriatic, as did in all probabiHty the men of the
leaf-shaped sword, but it is tempting to think that they crossed the Predil pass and
settled at Santa Lucia Tolmino, near the head waters of the Isonzo. Here a cemetery
was found in 1885,''' much of the grave furniture from which is, or was in 1914 in
the Trieste Museum, while the remainder is in Vienna. More than 1000 graves were found
and the cemetery must have been in existence for several centuries ; but it is usually
believed that the earUest graves date only from the eighth century. Others of the same
party crossed the mountains into the rich Friuli plain and settled at Dernazacco, near
Cividale,'^ and gradually spread thence over the Veneto.
We come across further evidence of their advance at Este,'' and as they crossed
the Po valley they destroyed the terremare, which had existed there since early in the
bronze age and dispersed their inhabitants." There is evidence that about this time
some of the terramara-io\\i arrived in Etruria,*' others are found settling in the
neighbourhood of Taranto," while Dr. Hooton has shown that there are strong reasons
for believing that the earliest settlement on the Palatine Hill at Rome was due to
these people.*^ The invaders seem to have occupied all the plain of Italy north-east of
the Apeninnes, the area known later as Ombrice'* or Etruria Circumpadana,*' but
'3 D^chelette (1908-14) ii. 591, 592, where all authorities are cited.
'' Gowland (1899) 49, 50.
'7 D^chelette (1908-14) ii. 592, where all authorities are cited.
8 B.P. 4th ser. V. (1910) 154 ;
'9 D6chelette (1908-14) ii. 536, 539, 540.
2° Modestov (1907) 217.
" Modestov (1907) 224.
N.S. (1909) 75, 76.
" Peet (1909) 421 ; N.S. (1900) 411 ; Modestov (1907) 219.
'3 Hooton (1913) ; see also Modestov 1907) 226.
M Herodotus i. 43 ; iv. 49.
>5 Livy V. 33 ; quoted by Dennis (1883) i. xxix.