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CHAPTER XI
THE NEOLITHIC POTTERY OF SOUTH RUSSIA AND
CENTRAL EUROPE
Before we sum up the results of this line of argument,
it will be well to describe certain discoveries, made outside
the iEgean area, to which it is mainly due that the
relation of the Minoan civilisation to the North is now
a burning question.
It has been known for many years 1 that pottery of an
advanced character has been found in Central Europe
in what is apparently a Neolithic environment. The
evidence, however, has of late rapidly accumulated, and
the inferences that have been drawn from it by Dr.
Hubert Schmidt ! and Professor von Stern 5 vitally affect
our conceptions as to the origin of ^Egean culture. The
finds extend over a huge area, which at its northern
limit is nearly nine hundred miles from east to west.
The north-eastern point is in the district of Tchernigof,
north-east of Kief in South Russia,4 and the area stretches
to the west at least as far as North Bohemia.5 A point
at the same latitude between the two, but nearer Russia
than Bohemia, is found on the Upper Dniester in
1 E.g. Wosinsky's work on Lcngyel waa published as long ago
as 1888.
2 Z. f. Ethnol. 1903, pp. 438-69; 1904, pp. 608-56; 1905, pp.
91-113.
3 P.K.S.R. 1905. It is published in duplicate in Russian and
German bound up together.
4 Ibid. p. 73. Mr. Chwoiko's excavations.
6 Hoernes, N.K.O. 1905, figs. 189-95, P- 72- In ibid. figs.
216-7, P- 86, there are elementary spirals and concentric half-
circles from Neolithic pottery as far west as Wiesbaden and
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THE NEOLITHIC POTTERY OF SOUTH RUSSIA AND
CENTRAL EUROPE
Before we sum up the results of this line of argument,
it will be well to describe certain discoveries, made outside
the iEgean area, to which it is mainly due that the
relation of the Minoan civilisation to the North is now
a burning question.
It has been known for many years 1 that pottery of an
advanced character has been found in Central Europe
in what is apparently a Neolithic environment. The
evidence, however, has of late rapidly accumulated, and
the inferences that have been drawn from it by Dr.
Hubert Schmidt ! and Professor von Stern 5 vitally affect
our conceptions as to the origin of ^Egean culture. The
finds extend over a huge area, which at its northern
limit is nearly nine hundred miles from east to west.
The north-eastern point is in the district of Tchernigof,
north-east of Kief in South Russia,4 and the area stretches
to the west at least as far as North Bohemia.5 A point
at the same latitude between the two, but nearer Russia
than Bohemia, is found on the Upper Dniester in
1 E.g. Wosinsky's work on Lcngyel waa published as long ago
as 1888.
2 Z. f. Ethnol. 1903, pp. 438-69; 1904, pp. 608-56; 1905, pp.
91-113.
3 P.K.S.R. 1905. It is published in duplicate in Russian and
German bound up together.
4 Ibid. p. 73. Mr. Chwoiko's excavations.
6 Hoernes, N.K.O. 1905, figs. 189-95, P- 72- In ibid. figs.
216-7, P- 86, there are elementary spirals and concentric half-
circles from Neolithic pottery as far west as Wiesbaden and
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