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A PAPER on this subject was read on September 7 by Dr. J. Pokorny (Berlin-Halensee) before Section H (Anthropology) at the Leicester meeting of the British Association. He pointed out that people usually look for the Celtic cradle in south-west Germany and the Rhineland, where we find the greatest number of Celtic river names, like Rhine, Danube, Tsar, etc., and where later the historical Celtic La Tene culture originated from the western Hallstatt culture, which again is in many ways a continuation of the south German Tumulus culture of the late Bronze Age. This Tumulus culture, so called because the dead were buried under barrows, extended from Holland and middle France through South Germany as far as south-west Bohemia.
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Origin of the Celts. Nature 132, 648 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132648a0
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