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PREHISTORIC FISHING. 



the above-named institution, has adhering to its shank a small fragment of the 

 wooden shaft into which it was inserted. 



Fio. 59. Concise. 



Fia. CO. Concise. 



Fio. 61. Wniiwyl. 



FIGS. 59-61. Harpoon-heads of bone aud deer-horn. 



Fig. 59 shows a very carefully worked bone harpoon-head, exhibited at 

 Berlin in 1880.* The locality from which the specimen was derived is not 

 named ; but the same object, it appears, is figured, with other similar ones, on a 

 smaller scale, in Dr. Keller's work,f as well as in that of M. Fred. Troyon.J 

 They are there denominated bone arrow-heads, and the Concise settlement in the 

 Lake of Neuchatel is mentioned as the locality where the specimens were 

 obtained. These objects are attributed to the stone period, though the lake- 

 village in question still nourished after the introduction of bronze. The shank 

 of Fig. 59, it will be seen, is very artistically notched, and if its form is cylin- 

 drical or rod-like, as the delineation suggests, the notches may have served for 

 the reception of bitumen by which the head was fastened in a socket-like cavity 

 at the end of the shaft. There are, indeed, no very strong indications that the 



* Amtliche Bcrichte ; p. 128, Pig. 85. 



f Keller: Lake Dwellings j Vol. II, Plate CIII, Pigs. 16, 17, and 18. 



J Troyon : Habitations Lacustres des Temps Anciens ct Modorncs ; Lausanne, I860 ; Plate VI, Figs. 3, 4, and 5. 



