ARCHEOLOGY IN DENMARK. 



In those which have remained intact skeletons are often found, 

 together with objects of use or decoration. The dolmen type is 

 generally considered the older; the jattestue, or chambers with 

 passage, are later ; the rectangular stone coffins, or cists, with no 

 approach are still more recent. The later stone-age man in Den- 

 mark cared well for his dead. He apparently believed in a future 

 life, else why should he so care- 

 fully bury with his dead such 

 beautiful and valuable objects ? 

 In some cases a tumulus might be 

 erected for a single dead man ; very 

 commonly, however, several dead 

 were buried in one mound ; occa- 

 sionally scores were thus compan- 

 ions in a common grave. 



The man of the later stone age 

 in Denmark was not ill equipped. 

 Implements and tools and orna- 

 ments of stone, bone, horn, wood, 

 etc., were his. His list of weapons 

 and tools included beautiful celts 

 or hatchets of flint finely polished, 

 war clubs, lances, arrows, poniards 

 of flint chipped to the most graceful 

 forms, axes, chisels, saws, knives, 

 scrapers, hammers (Figs. 8-13). 

 This is but a part : wonderful sam- 

 ples of chipping, of polishing, of 

 drilling ; beautiful in form and 

 finish. Nor were they useless ob- 

 jects. The weapons were perfectly 

 adapted to their purpose. As for 

 the tools, we may be sure that they 

 were serviceable. In the little town 

 of Broholm, in Funen, is a small 

 wooden house containing a fine 

 collection of stone implements. 

 These were found on the estate of a nobleman, who, after gather- 

 ing the series, ordered carpenters to build for him a house for 

 their display, stipulating that they should only use the old stone 

 tools in its construction. A book has been written giving the full 

 details of the work, and we can see that a carpenter of our day 

 might be in a worse plight than to be supplied only with a neo- 

 lithic kit of tools. 



That neolithic man in Denmark was an artist is shown by 

 these wonderful stone objects ; it is also shown by the beautiful 



Fig. 15. Garments of the Bronze 

 Age. 



