42 The Prehistoric Hunter. 



form and proportion as those used by the anglers of our own day, 

 as is seen from an inspection of the bronze hook depicted in Mr. 

 Phillips's chapter on "The Prehistoric Fish-hook." 



While the aged men, women, and children were employed in 

 forming weapons, canoes, agricultural tools, pottery, or in weaving 

 cloths and nets, the men set out over the causeway, — some to lead 

 their flocks to pasture and guard them from the wolves and bears, 

 while others, taking to the mountains and the dells, hunted the elk, 

 the stag, the urus, the bison, the roe-deer, the wild boar, and the 

 brown bear ; while others devoted their time to trapping the fox and 

 the beaver. The hare they did not chase, although they were accom- 

 panied by dogs. Indeed, the dog is now first seen in the history of 

 prehistoric man as a companion, whose friendship, intelligence, and 

 moral qualities were so highly appreciated by these hunters that they 

 would not partake of his flesh. The skull of the dog is found un- 

 broken among the relics at the bottom of the lakes. 



" When evening draws near, smoke begins to rise from the huts, 

 where the women are baking and cooking, for the men who have 

 been hunting in the woods will soon return, armed with spear and bow, 

 and loaded with the game killed by them. Those who have spent the 

 day in fishing guide their boats homeward ; field laborers, returning 

 from the cultivated patches along the shore, are seen to wend their 

 way toward the bridge, driving before them the lowing cattle which 

 were permitted to graze on the land during day-time, and are now 

 to be stabled for the night among the huts, safe from the attacks of 

 wolf and bear." * 



Whence the lake-dwellers came, what language they spoke, and 

 when they first built their lacustrine dwellings, are unanswered ques- 

 tions. We know that men lived on these pile-dwellings many centuries 

 before the discovery of bronze. At some stations, only stone imple- 

 ments are found ; at others, bronze and iron arms and tools overlie 

 those of stone, showing that these places were the sites of dwellings 

 during the many ages which must have elapsed from the neolithic, 

 or recent stone age, through the bronze to the iron age. 



Among the coins found in the relics of the pile-dwellings at Marin 

 is one of Claudius, which goes to show that in Switzerland the lake- 



* " Early Man in Europe," by Charles Rau. A work giving, in the most interesting 

 manner, an account of discoveries relating to prehistoric times. 



