MULDBJERG DWELLING PLACE—TROELS-SMITH 601 
leaves, as they are to this day in remote parts of Europe. Still, 
hunting and fishing were the main occupations. We may imagine 
that the women cared for the household, and that the field was sowed 
by them—nobody else knew better that the hunter’s luck could fail. 
It was the men who hunted seal and sea birds at the coast, and in the 
summertime the fresh waters called with fish and duck—and the 
wanderlust lived in them. 
VVVVVVY 
older-wood peat «VVVV VY ViKie7 vvvVvvvVl 
f VVVYV vv Vv 
d VVVY 
— ZYVVVVV 
' 
culture layer —> {ebbatinka tM sesame K 24 - 26 +128-29+131-32: 
2630 +80 BC 
Swamp - peat 
ISSSINRREER . 
drift mud ~ 3200 21608.C) [Kis6 _ | Ki2e SEESE 
: >> K136 2650 21608C.)° | 2060 t0BC] < 
>>} 23970 1180 B.C. Zk 
= BE 
x 
KEESERE 
3660 21808. 
calcareous mud 
Ficure 17.—Schematic section through the dwelling place on the floating peat island. 
K-123, etc., are the numbers of the carbon-14 samples. All dates given are B.C. Ac- 
cording to a correction from the radiocarbon laboratory all dates should be 200 years 
older. 
