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THE most important of these prehistoric stations is the burialfield of Klenik, near Waatsch. During the year 1878 about 250 graves, covered with stone slabs, were opened at a depth of from 1/2 metre to 21/2 metres. They contained skeletons, some remains of burnt corpses, and a great number of various objects. The bronze and other articles are very similar to those found in the well-known cemetery near Hallstadt, in Upper Austria. No Roman remains were met with. Thus there is no doubt of the pre-Roman age of these stations and cemeteries near Waatsch. They may be ascribed with great probability to the Taurisci, a Celtic tribe, known to have worked the salt at Hallstadt, and to have extended from Upper Austria, through Styria and Carinthia, as far as the Julian Alps. Strabo asserts explicitly that the very ancient landing-place Nauportus (now Ober-Laibach) was a settlement of this people, and, according to him, Italian merchandise was brought by carriage from Aquileja over Mount Okra (now Birnbaumer Wald), then by the River Savus to Siscia (now Sissek) and the Danubian districts. Thus it must be admitted that before the reign of Augustus a much-used water-communication existed on the Save and the Laibach between Siscia and Nauportus. The tradition ascribing the foundation of Emona to the Argonauts is an indication of the very remote beginning of this intercourse. Prof. Müllner, of Marburg, has lately offered some forcible arguments to the effect that Emona did not occupy the present position of Laibach, but was at the south end of the Laibach Moor, where Brundorf and Sonneggnow stand.
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From the First Report of the Prehistorical Committee of the Vienna Academy, with 22 plates. By F. von Hochstetter and Ch. Deschmann . (Proceedings, Imper. Acad, July 3, 1879.)
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Note on Prehistoric Stations in Carniola 1 . Nature 21, 192 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/021192a0
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