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Bronze Situla. Watsoh, Austrian Tyrol.
the more desirable territory, driving its intrusive competitor to the wall? Were there proof that the original invasion of our Alpine race from the east had been a forcible one, an answer to this would be afforded by a study of culture; for it is now accepted generally that the main arts of civilization have entered western Europe from the east. Moreover, the present seat of the Alpine race was characterized by a peculiarly advanced civilization in early times. Thus the extension of the so-called Hallstadt culture a thousand years or more before the Christian not unlike that of the Etruscan in Italy, coincided with the territory now
