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Diagram C. The Ancestral Homeland of the Slavs

burying their dead in tumuli; but their particular ethnic connections cannot now

be determined. From the early Bronze Age, however, the central and eastern

areas of modern Poland were inhabited by Baits; the north-western areas fell

within the fringe of Germanic settlement, which had stabilized in southern

Scandinavia.^3 South-western areas formed part of the Central European

Culture, which possessed an Illyrian - Celtic complexion. Only the extreme

south-eastern corner of modern Poland, in the vicinity of Rzeszow and

Przemysl, would have fallen within the extreme bounds of Slavonic settlement.