Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . , Mound Cul-ture of Bohe-mia, Keltic.(1000 B. 100 ) G. Urn - Fieldand Subse-quent Cul-ture, Slavic.(About 900B. C. to 1A. D.) 7. La TeneC u 1 ture,Keltic.(200 B. A. D.) Slav-Ro-man Period.(I-V D.) Merovin-gian Cul-ture (local-ized). (VI-VII D.). 10. Later SlavPeriod.(VI-XIICent. ). Fig. 5.—Characteristic objects and crania from the newer cultures of theCzechoslovak Territories. CZECHOSLOVAK PEOPLE—MATIEGKA. 481. £•#• .»..*> 482 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1919. and finall
Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . , Mound Cul-ture of Bohe-mia, Keltic.(1000 B. 100 ) G. Urn - Fieldand Subse-quent Cul-ture, Slavic.(About 900B. C. to 1A. D.) 7. La TeneC u 1 ture,Keltic.(200 B. A. D.) Slav-Ro-man Period.(I-V D.) Merovin-gian Cul-ture (local-ized). (VI-VII D.). 10. Later SlavPeriod.(VI-XIICent. ). Fig. 5.—Characteristic objects and crania from the newer cultures of theCzechoslovak Territories. CZECHOSLOVAK PEOPLE—MATIEGKA. 481. £•#• .»..*> 482 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1919. and finally the dead were buried in simple quadrilateral wooden a long time, however, the old customs were still manifested bythe inclusion in the grave of clay or wooden vessels, evidently con-tainers of food and drink for the last journey of the departed. Inaddition there is found, especially in female and childrens graves,considerable jewelry, and eventually also Bohemian silver coins(tenth to twelfth century). The reverence toward older burials of other peoples, the careshown in the burials of children and babies, the latter of whomfrequently accompany the mothers body, and other signs are wit-nesses of the gentleness and advanced status of the people of thisperiod. The skeletons of this time show relatively high stature. The skulls,though already historically identified as Slavonic, are still in themajority of cases dolichocephalic or but mesocephalic, and only aswe advance toward our period the pro
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