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La Tene Migrations circa 400 BCThe Migration Period - Most recent texts (e.g., Frey, 1995) give a date of circa 400 BCfor the migration of the Boii, Senones, Cenomani, and Lingones into the Po Valley andthe Adriatic coast. These Celtic settlements came to be known as “Gallia Cisalpina” tothe Romans. Other Celtic people moved east along the Danube at approximately thistime, and it is entirely possible that part of the movements of this group ocurrednorthward. These events are well described by Plutarch in “Life of Camillus”. Plutarchwrote, The Gauls were of the Celtic stock, and their numbers were such, as it is said, thatthey abandoned their own country, which was not able to sustain them all, and set out inquest of another. They were many myriads of young warriors, and they took along withthem a still greater number of women and children. Some of them crossed the Rhipaeanmountains, streamed off towards the northern ocean, and occupied the remotest parts ofEurope; others settled between the Pyrenees and the Alps, near the Senones and theCeltorians, and dwelt there a long time. But at last they got a taste of wine, which wasthen for the first time brought them from Italy. They admired the drink so much, and wereall so beside themselves with the novel pleasure which it gave, that they seized theirarms, took along their families, and made off to the Alps, in quest of the land whichproduced such fruit, considering the rest of the world barren and wild (15, p.128). TheRhipaean Mountains was the land where where headwaters of the rivers emptying intothe Baltic and Black Seas emerged. This description appears to suggest that circa 400 BCthe Gauls split to move to the west (toward the Pyrenees) as well as perhaps the Balticand Carpathian Mountains. These events also appear to be recorded in the archaeologicalhistory of Jutland (see later). A reliance on the archaeological record to outline this7