262 THE COMING OF MAN 



It is remarkable how many useful tools they 

 made for themselves from these simple materials. 

 They used the antlers of the stag for rakes, or as 

 picks, and parts of them for fish hooks and spears. 

 From their weapons it looks as if the lake-dwellers 

 speared the larger fish in much the same way that the 

 North American Indians did. They carved the horn 

 into drinking-cups, into awls, and even into such 

 civilized articles as pins and needles, combs, buttons, 

 beads and earrings. 



Now you are going to ask how we know about 

 these things that were made so many thousands of 

 years ago. Have you forgotten natm-e's book? 



Just as the water at the sea beach buried and 

 preserved the shells and the footprints of animals, 

 so the water of those lakes where the lake-dwellers 

 lived has preserved for us the hunting and farming 

 implements, the household utensils and bits of food 

 and clothing that fell into the lake and were buried 

 in the mud. Such multitudes of articles as those 

 ancient men had learned to make, and so skillful 

 had they become with their stone tools! Think of 

 it, a comb made of boxwood! Pins and needles 

 made of bone! 



If, when you were working in your garden, you 

 should dig up an old coin or an Indian arrow-head, 

 would you not look at it with a strange feeling of 

 wonder, knowing that some human being of long 

 ago had lived upon that very spot? So when we 

 open natiu-e's book and see in its pages the combs 

 and the buttons, the needles and pins that some long 

 forgotten people used at their toilet; when we see 



