24 PREHISTORIC FISHING. 



The relics found in the reindeer-hunters' retreat called the " Kesslerloch," 

 near Thayngen, in the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland,* have been described by 

 the discoverer of the cave, Mr. Konrad Merk, in the " Mittheilungen" 

 (communications) of the Antiquarian Society of Ziirich. The material out of 

 which the cave-dwellers manufactured their implements, he states, was almost 

 exclusively furnished by the antlers of the reindeer. There were found at this 

 station only eight harpoon-like objects, differing in the execution as well as in 



Fio. 25. 



Fio. 



Fio. 27. 



Fio. 24. 



Fio. 28. 



All \. 

 FIGS. 24-28. Harpoon-heads of reindeer-horn (?). Kesslerloch. 



* See p. 0. 



