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herbal remedies and magical formulae, which are wholly or partially preserved inGaulish (Maier, 2000, p.103). Circa 470 AD Sidonius Apollinaris noted that the localArverni of Gaul still spoke the Celtic language. However, within a hundred or so yearsor so of the latter date it appears that few in any Central European Celts could speak thelanguage of their ancestors, and the Celtic cultural features dissipated to the point ofbeing largely unrecognizable (the demise being well described by Collis, 2003).General direction of La Tene Celtic migration from circa 400 BCIn the above map the La Tene Celtic homeland is shown in yellow. The dark greenrepresents some limited cultural and perhaps folk movements to the west, plus regionswhere other cultures which spoke what are today known as Celtic languages, but whowere not at the time known as Celts (not until the 16 th Century was the term applied tothe insular people who spoke Goidel or Gaelic). The light green depicts expansion areaswhere La Tene Celts settled, according to documentary sources, and where theirdescendants could be found today. The continuity is reflected in many archaeologicalassemblages such as, the occurrence of Attic Red Figure Ware dating to the fifth centuryBC turning up in graves in northern France and southern Germany, such as KleinAspergle in Baden-Wurttemberg, or Somme Bionne in Champagne (Collis, 2003, p.78).These rather specific regional links may extend back thousands of years, for example thatbetween the Languedoc and southern Germany; while the cultural links of Provence aremore clearly with the peoples of the Swiss plateau (Collis, 2003, see p.177).11