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v osvajanje novih področij. Preko panonske ravni- ades later, launched their conquest of new territories. »desetletje je dolgo obdobje ...« ■ »ten years is a long time ...« 11
ce so se poljedelski vojščaki usmerili na vzhod proti Across the Pannonian Plain, these agricultural war-
rudonosnemu hribovju Transilvanije, na jug proti so- riors headed east towards the ore rich hills of Transyl-
točju Save in Donave, ki varuje vhod na osrednji Bal- vania, south towards the confluence of Sava and Dan-
kan ter dalje v Egejo – eden izmed najstarejših valov ube, protecting entry in and out of the central Balkans,
poselitve pa se je zaustavil na vznožjih predalpskih hri- and further into the Aegean. One of the earliest waves
bovij Štajerske. Njihova materialna kultura je odraža- of settlers ended at the foothills of pre-Alpine moun-
la prefinjen spoj tradicij keltske kulture mlajše železne tains of Štajerska. Their material culture reflected the
dobe, ki so jo prinesli s seboj še iz osrednje Evrope, op- refined junction of Celtic Late Iron Age traditions
lemeniten z novo razvitimi tehnologijami in slogovni- brought from Central Europe and ennobled with new-
mi značilnostmi krašenja predmetov, ki so jih ustvarili ly developed technologies and stylistic characteristics
v centrih eksplozije njihove nove kreativnosti na juž- of decorations from centers of creative explosion in
nem Slovaškem in severnem Madžarskem, ter dalje southern Slovakia and northern Hungary and further
razvijali na svoji poti ter v novih domovih. developed along their journeys and in their new homes.

Sledi keltskih prišlekov na vzhodu, njihovi grobovi, Traces of Celtic incomers in the East, along with their
ostanki naselij, izgubljeni in odloženi novci ter imena, graves, settlement remains, lost and deposited coins,
ki so jih zapustili njihovi potomci, so bile skoraj stole- and names handed over by their descendants, were for
tje in pol predmet raziskave številnih generacij stari- almost one and half centuries the subject of research
noslovcev in arheologov, posameznikov, ki so s svojim by numerous antiquarians and archaeologists – indi-
znanstvenim delom ustvarili slovensko arheologijo ter viduals who with their scientific endeavors created
njeno podobo v domači in mednarodni javnosti. Izko- Slovenian archaeology and its image before the na-
pavanja, raziskave in objave keltskih najdb, kot tudi tional and international public. Excavations, research
njihove predstavitve, so pomemben del razvoja arhe- and publications of Celtic finds, as well as their pres-
ologije, vendar to poglavje zgodovine raziskav ni bilo entations, are an important element for the develop-
nikoli izpostavljeno oziroma natančneje obravnavano ment of Slovenian archaeology, but this special epi-
v širšem sklopu poskusov pisanja zgodovine razvoja ar- sode in the history of research was never presented or
heologije na področju današnje Slovenije. Navadno so discussed in detail, especially not in broader efforts
bili dogodki, ki so zaznamovali razvoj vedenja, pred- to write the history of the development of archeolo-
stavljeni v uvodnih delih objav, naštevajoč zgolj zapo- gy on the territory of today’s Slovenia. Usually events
redje poglavitnih odkritij (Gabrovec 1966; Božič 1999), that marked the development of knowledge were pre-
ali pa skriti v obširnih mozaikih raziskav predvsem sta- sented in the introductory parts of publications, list-
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