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Italian "archaeologists of the highest standing" backed Prof. Pigorini: Mortillet had not seen the Italian things, but he stood to his guns. Things found near Cracow were taken as corroborating the Breonio finds, also things from Volosova, in Russia. Is it likely? Why should they forge similar unheard-of things in Russia, Poland, and Italy?
He got up the subject for himself, and knew more than many of his critics. I had no more to do with the forger than M. Salomon Reinach had to do with faking the golden "tiara of Saitaphernes," bought by the Louvre for 8000 pounds. He read books, English, French, German, American, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. "Pigorini conjectured that it had some religious signification."
In superintending the excavation of a TERREMARE at Toszig, in Hungary, Pigorini, was greatly struck by the resemblance between it and similar erections in Italy, especially that of Casarolo. This is very much in favor of the Itali having been the builders.
To them must be added, fourthly, the important evidence which points to the use of a system closely akin to town-planning in early Rome itself. More than a hundred of these strange settlements have been examined by Pigorini, Chierici, and other competent Italians.
In no other way can we explain the confusion in which the human remains lay when they were discovered. Pigorini thinks this is a proof that primitive races worshipped their dead, and held their bodies in veneration. Perhaps they even carried them about in their migrations. However that may be, the custom of separating the flesh from the bones was continued until cremation became general.
In Italy, says Issel, the cave men buried their dead in the caves they lived in, a thin layer of earth alone separating them from the living; the bodies, adds Pigorini, generally lay on the left side, the head rested on the left hand, and the knees were bent.
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