200 THE FAUNA OF THE LAKE-DWELLINGS. 



the vase, just below the lip ; this style of ornamentation is 

 common on the pottery found by M. Gillieron at the Pont de 

 Thiele. 



Although there can be no doubt that the skins of animals 

 supplied the ancient Lakemen with their principal articles of 

 clothing, still in several of the settlements, and especially at 

 Wangen and Kobenhausen, both of which belong to the Stone 

 Age, pieces of rude fabric (fig. 168) have been found in some 



FIG. 168. 



Piece of Tissue from Robenhausen. 



abundance. They consist either of flax fibres or straw. The 

 presence of spindle- whorls has been already mentioned. 



For our knowledge of the animal remains from the Pile- 

 works we are principally indebted to Prof. Eiitimeyer. The 

 bones are in a very fragmentary condition, and have been 

 broken open for the sake of the marrow. There is also the 

 same absence of certain bones and parts of bones, so that it 

 is impossible to re-construct a perfect skeleton even of the 

 commonest animal. 



The total number of species amounts to about seventy, of 

 which ten are fishes, four reptiles, twenty-six birds, and the 

 remainder quadrupeds. Of the latter, six species may be 

 considered as having been domesticated; namely, the dog, 



