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PALAFITTES, OR LACUSTRIAN COXSTEUCTIONS 



recently described in a remarkable treatise by Professor 0. Heer, fDie PJlan- 

 zcn der PfaJilbnuten, Zurich, 1S65,) to wbicb we would refer our readers, ex- 

 tracting from it only the annexed group, which represents diifereut species of 

 cereals cultivated in the age of stnne. (i^ig. 21a.) 



If thus skilled in the art of cultivating cereals, the possession by the inhabit- 

 ants of implements of til- 

 lage follows by necessary 

 implication ; and it is from 

 the station of Robenhausen 

 again that the first revela- 

 tion in this respect might 

 have been anticipated. M.. 

 Keller, in effect, has just 

 given us the description, ac- 

 companied by a design, of 

 on instrument formed of a 

 portion of a stag's horn, 

 fixed in a handle of wood, 

 and so cut as to serve for a 

 mattock on one side and a 

 hook on the other, (^Ferd. 

 Keller, 6th Report, page 

 249,) while the same ten- 

 eviere has yielded other 

 implements of husbandry, 

 made of maple wood, and 

 remarkable for their execu- 

 tion when we consider the 

 tools of that epoch, (Keller, 

 6th Report, page 249.) All 

 this implies conditions very 

 different from those of the 

 populations of the age of the reindeer, who were only liunters, or of those of the 

 kokkenmodings of Denmark, who.lived upon shell-fish collected on the sea shore. 

 The inhabitants of our tenevieres had fixed habitations and much cattle. They 

 made provision for winter; they took thought for their raiment and had regard 

 to their toilet ; they were expert in the art of spinning and weaving. They 

 were no longer, therefore, in the savage state. 



Let us remember, in the last place, that, according to the latest researches, 

 the tenevieres often comprise several archaeological strata, superposed and sepa- 

 rated by deposits of peat, &c., which attain even a metre in depth (at Roben- 

 hausen.) It may be possible, some day, through a close study of these depos- 

 its, to estimate the duration of such intervals. We know with certainty that it 

 must have been very long. It was not time, then, which was wanting to the 

 tribes of the age of stone in order to arrive at the degree of civilization, humble 

 no doubt, but yet remarkable, which is attested by the remains of their industry 

 and culture. 



lire 21a. 



