THE EARTH’S PALE PRIME

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18867, 21 May 1923, Page 7

THE EARTH’S PALE PRIME

RELICS OF BRONZE_^.GE. DISCOVERIES IN HUNGARY. tress Association—By Telegraph—Copyri;jht BUDAPEST. May 18. Archeologists have unearthed near the capital an ancient burial place, with traces of prehistoric man, and also the remains of various historical records of the Roman and Celtic migration periods. The finds include bronze age weapons and urns, and 14 skeletons of the migration period. The formation of the bones suggests that tney are the remains of a race which lived largely on horseback, the lower bones of the legs being slightly curved. —A. and N.Z. Cable.

Mr 11. D. Skinner informs us that i’ Middle Europe, and especially in Hungary,’ these remains of the bronze age are very numerous and are of high artistic merit. There are great numbers of them in the museums of Budapest and Vienna. The period referred to is evidently before the foundation of Rome, when the Celticand Latin races are believed to have been moving westward—into Italy on the one hand, and into Germany and Gaul on the other. It is highly unlikely that any written records were found, as no previous discovery of written records of that period lias been made in this region before. It may also be doubted whether at this early period the art of riding was practised at all, though it is quite probable that horses were used for drawing carts and chariots. The date of the relics would probably be in the second millennium n.c. The use, of irons for weapons is believed to have begun in Hungary and Middle Europe about the tenth century n.C.