14 WEIGHT OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE. 



Moosseedorf we have a list comprising 75 flint nuclei, 25 

 arrow-heads, 12 spear-heads, 90 scrapers, 30 saws, 96 axes, 

 310 long flakes, and about 2000 small ones, 25 hammers, 

 45 grindstones, etc., 71 awls of bone, 12 pointed ribs, 160 

 bone chisels, 18 sharpened boar's teeth, 8 perforated boar's 

 teeth, 2 perforated bear's teeth, 5 harpoons of horn, 8 chisels 

 and 4 awls of horn, besides 30 axe-handles or sockets, with- 

 out a trace of metal. The result, so far as six stations are 

 concerned, is shown in the following table (p. 15). 



If, for instance, we commence with the remains discovered 

 at Wangen, on the Lake of Constance, we have an even more 

 remarkable case. M. Lohle has found there more than 1500 

 axes, 100 whetstones, 150 corn -crushers, and 2500 arrow- 

 heads, flint flakes, chips, etc. ; altogether more than 4450 

 instruments of stone, besides about 350 of bone, making, with 

 100 earthenware spinning -weights, a grand total of nearly 

 5000 objects, and yet not a trace of metal. The number 

 of corn-crushers and spindle-whorls is interesting, when we 

 remember that Wangen alone, among these four localities, 

 has supplied us with specimens of carbonized grain, and flax 

 fabrics. 



Now let me ask the reader to compare with the four cases 

 given in the table on p. 15 the list of remains from the 

 Bronze Age settlements of Merges, ISTidau, Estavayer, Cor- 

 taillod, and Corcelettes, and the two Bronze Age finds of 

 Larnaud and Reallon. The manner in which the collections 

 were made accounts, probably, for the absence of whetstones, 

 and, perhaps, to a great extent, for that of the flint flakes, 

 etc. On these points, therefore, I lay little stress ; but the 

 total absence of stone axes at Merges, and their rarity at 

 Nidau and Estavayer, is very remarkable. At the former 

 M. Forel, after the most careful search, has found but one 

 object of iron. The large number of corn-crushers and the 

 presence of spinning-weights are also significant. 



