An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . is comparable to themodern safety-pin. Its origin from a plain pin is easilyunderstood. Such a pin being doubled upon itself, a com-plete turn forms the spring at one end, whilst at the otherthe blunt end turned up acts as the catch for the point,and the safety-pin is an accomplished fact. The earliestItalian brooches are hardly distinguishable from such asafety-pin, those from the Lake Dwelling Settlementof Pcschiera on Lake Garda, and from the Terramare ofthe Valley of the Po (Fig. 300 (4)). The fibula was inuse therefore in Northern Ita
An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . is comparable to themodern safety-pin. Its origin from a plain pin is easilyunderstood. Such a pin being doubled upon itself, a com-plete turn forms the spring at one end, whilst at the otherthe blunt end turned up acts as the catch for the point,and the safety-pin is an accomplished fact. The earliestItalian brooches are hardly distinguishable from such asafety-pin, those from the Lake Dwelling Settlementof Pcschiera on Lake Garda, and from the Terramare ofthe Valley of the Po (Fig. 300 (4)). The fibula was inuse therefore in Northern Italy during the latter part of theBronze Age. For this reason, and on the further groundsthat the older fibulae occur in much greater numbers andvariety in Italy than elsewhere, and that the fibula did notreach the yEgean before the close of the Bronze Age (in fact its appearance in the Plastern Mediterranean coincides 302 FIBULA 303 with that of iron), it is highly probable that the broochoriginated in Northern Italy/ Its later arrival in Greece. Fig. 300.—Bronze age fibulae (i, 2, 3) Mycenae. (4) Pcschicra. (5) N. Italy.(6) Central Italy. (7) Marne. (8) Rhine Province. (10, 11) Sicily. (12)Corcelette. (13) Larnand (Jura). (14) Moringen. and beyond is supported by its absence from the acropolisgraves of Mycenae, and the five earlier cities of Hissarlik, 1 Montelius, Spdmienfrau Bronsdlderen (1880-2), and La Civilizationpritnitive en Italie (1895); Ridgeway, Early Age of Greece, chap. vi. ;\]ndiS&i, Zeitschrift fur Ethnologic (1889), p. 205; O. Tischler, Anthrop. u. Urgeschichte, Bayern, iv. (1881), p. 47, Taf. IV and V. 304 PREHISTORIC ART
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