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See also:LATEEN (the Anglicized See also:form of Fr. latine, i.e. voile latine, Latin See also:sail, so-called as the See also:chief form of rig in the Mediterranean) , a certain See also:kind of triangular See also:sail, having a See also:long yard by which it is suspended to the See also:mast . A " lateener " is a See also:vessel rigged with a See also:lateen sail and yard . This rig was formerly much used, and is still the typical sail of the See also:felucca of the Mediterranean, and See also:dhow of the Arabian See also:Sea . LA TENE (See also:Lat. See also:tennis, shallow), the site of a See also:lake-dwelling at the See also:north end of Lake See also:Neuchatel, between Marin and Prefargier . According to some, it was originally a Helvetic oppidum; according to others, a Gallic commercial See also:settlement . R . Forrer distinguishes an older semi-military, and a younger civilian settlement, the former a Gallic customs station, the See also:Roman See also:clergy and populace, or of the imperial ratification, there latter, which may be compared to the canabae of the Roman camps, containing the booths and taverns used by soldiers and sailors . He also considers the older station to have been, not as usually supposed, Helvetic, but pre- or proto-Helvetic, the See also:character of which changed with the advance of the See also:Helvetii into See also:Switzerland (c. zso-zoo B.C.) . La Tene has given its name to a See also:period of culture (c . 500 B.C.—A.D . 100), the phase of the See also:Iron See also:age succeeding the See also:Hallstatt phase, not as being its starting-point, but because the finds are the best known of their kind . The latter are divided into See also:early (c . 500-250 B.C.), See also:middle (250-100 B.c.) and See also:late (zoo B.C.-A.D . 100), and chiefly belong to the middle period . They are mostly of iron, and consist of swords, See also:spear-heads, axes, scythes and knives, which exhibit a remark-able agreement with the description of the weapons of the See also:southern Celts given by Diodorus Siculus . There are also brooches, See also:bronze kettles, torques, small bronze See also:ear-rings with little See also:glass pearls of various See also:colours, See also:belt-hooks and pins for fastening articles of clothing . The La Tene culture made its way through See also:France across to See also:England, where it has received the name of " late See also:Celtic "; a remarkable find has been made at See also:Aylesford in See also:Kent . See F . See also:Keller, Lake Dwellings of Switzerland, vi . (Eng. trans., 1878) ; V . See also:Gross, La Tene un oppidum helvete (1886) ; E . Vouga, See also:Les Helvetes a La Tene (1886) ; P . See also:Reinecke, Zur Kenntnis der la Tene Denkmaler der See also:Zone nordwarts der Alpen (Mainzer Festschrift, 1902) ; R . Ferrer, Reallexikon der prahistorischen . . . Altertumer (1907), where many illustrations are given . |
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