ANCHOR-STONES. 95 



cei'tain. A nearly similar object, on which zigzag-lines are engraved, was 

 likewise found in Bohusland, and is now in the Museum of Groteborg. Professor 

 Nilsson observes that he has not yet found this form among weapons used by 

 modern savages/'^ The Peruvians, I will mention, used star-shaped perforated 

 weapon-heads of stone, copper, or bronze. M. Cazalis de Fondouce, who saw 

 the original oi Fig. 123 at Lund, considers it too unwieldy to have served as 

 suggested by the Swedish archseologist.f 



i 

 Fig. 123.— Stoue anchor (?). Bohusland. 



3.— BRONZE AGE. 



GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS. 



It would be beyond the scope of this treatise to discuss to any length the 

 question by what agencies implements and ornaments of bronze gradually found 

 their way to those European countries in which the use of metal previously had 

 been unknown. I shall offer only a few observations, though for the purposes 

 here in view it would almost suflSce to state that bronze in the form of cast 

 articles appeared there, first sparsely, and afterward in greater abundance, inso- 

 much that the ordinary implements hitherto made of stone, etc., could be 

 replaced by more serviceable ones of bronze. This transition, however, must 

 have been slow, especially in its beginning stage, the costly composition J being 



* Nilsson : Primitive Inhabitants; p. 75. 



f Cazalis de Fondouce : Compte-rendu du Congres International d'Archeologfe et d'Anthropologie Prehisto- 

 riques de Copenhague ; Materiaux ; Vol. VI, 1870-'7I ; p. 235. 



X The ordinary bronze of that period is an alloy of nine parts of copper and one of tin. 



