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PREHISTORIC FISHING. 



tlirowing-stick or boai'cl with such force that it flies whizzing through the air, 

 and with such wonderful skill that it generally pierces the head of the duck. 



Fw. 100.— Scania. 



Fia. 107. — Scania. 



Fio. 108.— Scania. 



Fig. 109.— Prussia. 



All i. 

 Figs. 106-109. — Javelin-heads of bone uith inserted flint flalces. 



" There is scarcely any doubt that the darts here sketched have been the 

 same kind of hunting-implements, and that they have been employed in the 

 same way. That they have been, and were intended to be, thrown by hand, we 

 can easily see, because they could have been used only on the water ; for if 

 thrown on land, they must infallibly have been broken to pieces and destroyed. 

 They are, therefore, found only in peat-bogs, which in former times were open 

 waters, sometimes of considerable extent. They occur not unfrequently in the 

 South of Sweden. Our museums contain a great number of them ; but in Den- 

 mark they are rare."* 



Professor Nilsson's statements seem to be correct in every particular ; yet 

 these darts, on account of their jagged sides, were also serviceable as heads of 

 implements used in the fish-hunt, and for this reason I have given the preceding 

 extract fi'om Nilsson's work. 



The peat-bogs of Eastern Prussia likewise haA^e yielded a limited number 

 of these bone-and-flint darts, which are preserved in the collection of northern 

 antiquities in the Xew Museum at Berlin. They were described by Mr. Friedel 

 in an article entitled " Ueber Knochenpfeile aus Deutschland," which appeared 

 in "Archiv fiir Anthropologic" (Vol. V, 1872, page 433). Fig. 109 is one 



* Nilsson : Primitive Inhabitants; p. 40, etc. — Madsen figures a number of Danish specimens of this liind on 

 Plate 40 of his "Antiquites Prehistoriques du Danemarli." 



