ABSTRACT
For a long time the people inhabiting this east-central district of Europe had been in a close trade-connection with South-West Germany and the Rhineland, and also with the Ligurians in North Italy; but at· the close of the Bronze Age, i.e. about IOOO B.C., there was an actual progression of the people themselves westwards. This began by a movement into South-West Germany, the Rhineland, and Switzerland, and into Central Gaul as far as the Loire, while at much the same time related peoples also descended the valley of the Rhone and settled in South-Western France and across the Pyrenees in Catalonia.1
