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boleznimi, ki so jih slednji prinesli s sabo. Raziska- es carried by these nomads. Later research demon-
ve zadnjih let pa so pokazale, da je poselitev sicer bila strated that settlement was scarce; however, we start-
zagotovo redkejša, vendar se je počasi začelo odkrivati ed to slowly discover deeply buried traces of modest
globoko zakopane sledi skromnih ostankov. remains.

Najstarejše najdbe mlajšeželeznodobne keltske ma- Discoveries of earliest Late Iron Age Celtic material »desetletje je dolgo obdobje ...« ■ »ten years is a long time ...« 9
terialne kulture kažejo uvožene predmete in kultur- culture demonstrate imported object and cultural in-
ne vplive, ki so na današnje ozemlje Slovenije prite- fluences which came to the territory of today’s Slovenia
kali tako z vzhoda kot tudi z zahoda, z alpskega in s from the East and the West, from the Alpine and the
panonskega sveta ter se mešali z lokalnimi tradicija- Pannonian worlds, blended with local traditions. To-
mi. Slednje danes prepoznavamo kot sestavljanko kul- day, the latter could be recognized as a compound of
turnih skupin, nadaljujoč številne regionalne značil- cultural groups that continued numerous local charac-
nosti, razprostranjene na omejenem prostoru na eni teristics on a limited, expanding territory, thus creating
ter ustvarjajoč popolnoma nove tradicije in povezave completely new traditions and connections. Studying
na drugi strani. Opazujoč arheološke najdbe se zdi, da the archaeological finds, it seems that the eastern and
sta v četrtem stoletju postala vzhodni in osrednji del central part of Slovenia became intensively celticised in
Slovenije močneje keltizirana, poseljena s skupnostmi, the 4th century BC – settled with communities which
za katere domnevamo, da so tako kulturno kot jezi- we assume were culturally as well as linguistically part
kovno sodile v skupino vzhodnih Keltov, medtem ko of an Eastern Celtic group. In the same period, on the
je zahod (ozemlje Notranjske, Krasa, Primorja in Po- territory of western Slovenia (Notranjska, Kras, Pri-
sočja) ves čas zgolj selektivno sprejemal posamezne morje and Posočje), several elements of material cul-
elemente materialne kulture ter posamezne prišleke, ture were selectively accepted and individual newcom-
ki so, kljub sprejetju v lokalne skupnosti, nadaljeva- ers, despite the fact that they were accepted by local
li svoje značilne kulturne tradicije vse do smrti ter še communities, continued their cultural traditions until
dlje. the end of their lives and beyond.

Sredi četrtega stoletja pred našim štetjem so se na po- In the middle of the 4th century BC, newcomers, part
dročju vzhodne Slovenije pojavili novi prišleki, ki so of the larger community designated as Eastern Celts,
bili del skupnosti, poimenovane kot vzhodni Kelti. appeared on the territory of eastern Slovenia. They
Ljudstev, ki so v nekaj desetletjih poselila vzhodni del were people who over several decades settled in the
osrednje Evrope, tam oblikovala svoje upravne in kul- eastern part of Central Europe, created their adminis-
turne centre ter iz njih nekaj desetletij kasneje kreni- trative and cultural centers and from there, several dec-
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