The Rise of the Celts by Henri Hubert

Author:Henri Hubert [Hubert, Henri]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, General
ISBN: 9781136202704
Google: xKSQMDFR4tcC
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-06-17T01:17:58+00:00

VI

A VIEW OF THE ORIGINS OF THE CELTS AND ITALO-CELTIC RELATIONS. TRACES OF THE GOIDELS AT THEIR STARTING-POINT

In working up to the origins of the Continental, Brythonic branch of the Celts, we had to stop at the second period of the Bronze Age. At this time, according as one adopts one or the other of the hypotheses set forth above, either the migration of the Goidels was beginning, and their establishment in the country from which they started was much earlier, or else it was over, and we must go back in our search for an undivided Celtic race, to what many still call the Neolithic Age, that is, the long succession of centuries during which metal was slowly coming into use in Western and Northern Europe.

The picture presented, at this approximate date, by the prehistoric archaeology of the region which we are considering, is very involved. An attempt has been made to bring some order into the facts revealed by the excavations by distinguishing different civilizations by their pottery. For the pottery (Fig. 34) is very plentiful and varies greatly, whereas this cannot be said of other objects. For types of pottery students have sought corresponding types of man, not without contradictions ; behind civilizations they have tried to detect peoples.1

The pottery has been classified in types—that of the megaliths of Northern Germany, that of the lake-dwellings, that which is adorned with incised bands, the beakers on which a pattern has been impressed with cords, the zoned vases, and a number of wares adorned with deeply impressed dots, called after Schönfeld, Rössen, Nierstein, Grossgartach, and other sites.

The pottery of the lake-dwellings and the hill-stations

FIG. 34 Neolithic Pottery of Germany. (Schumacher, Siedelings- u. Kulturgesch., p. 58, fig. 18.) The types, reading down, are : Pile-dwelling ; megalith ; Rössen, Grossgartach, etc. ; Hinkelstein ; spiral ; cord-impression ; zoned.

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