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POTTERY. 



handles for hatchets. In some cases, pieces of bone were 

 worked to an edge, but they are neither hard nor sharp enough 

 to cut well. Bone awls are numerous, and may have been 

 used in preparing skins for clothes. Fig. 128 (p. 109) repre- 

 sents a chisel or scraper of bone, from Wangen. One purpose 

 for which these were used was no doubt to scrape off the hair, 

 in dressing skins. 



A few objects made of wood have also been found at Wauwyl 

 and elsewhere ; but these, even if originally numerous, would 

 be difficult to distinguish from the surrounding peat, especially 

 as this contains so many branches of trees and other fragments 

 of wood ; and it would also be very difficult to extract them 



FIG. 1C6. 



Piece of Pottery. Lake of Zurich. 



entire. Perhaps, therefore, implements of wood may have 

 been much more varied and common .than the collections 

 would appear to indicate. Tinder has been found in several 

 of the Lake villages, and was no doubt used in obtaining fire. 

 The pottery of the Stone Age presents nearly the same 

 characters in all the settlements. Very rude and coarse, it is 

 generally found in broken pieces, and comparatively few entire 

 vessels have been obtained. There is no evidence that the 

 potter's wheel was known, and the baking is very imperfect, 



