ARROW-HEADS. IMPLEMENTS OF BONE AND WOOD. 197 



two or three inches in diameter, occur even in the villages of 

 the Stone Age. 



The list of objects hitherto found at Wauwyl is as follows : 



Stone axes, principally of serpen- 

 tine 43 



Small flint arrow-heads .... 36 



Flint flakes 200 



Corn-crushers 



Kude stones used as hammers, 

 common (say) 



Whetstones 



Slings tones, etc. ... . 



20 

 26 



85 ; 



Not all 

 collected. 



In all about . . . . . 426 articles of stone. 



The flint, of which the flakes and arrow-heads were formed, 

 must have come from a distance, and the best pieces in all 

 probability were obtained from France. Visits may have 

 been made to the French quarries, just as Catlin tells us that 

 the American tribes, from far and near, visited the red pipe- 

 stone quarry of Coteau des Prairies. A few fragments of 

 Mediterranean coral have been found at Concise, and of Baltic 

 amber at Meilen. Some archseologists have argued from these 

 facts, that there must have been a certain amount of commerce 

 even in the Stone Age. As, however, both these settlements 

 appear to have belonged to the transitional period between 

 the age of Stone and that of Bronze, it would be safer to refer 

 both the amber and the coral to the later period. 



Like other savages, the Lake-dwellers made the most of 

 any animal they could catch. They ate the flesh, used the 

 skin for clothing, picked every fragment of marrow out of the 

 bones, and then, in many cases, fashioned the bones themselves 

 into weapons. The larger and more compact ones, as well as 

 horns of the deer, served as hammers, and were used as 



