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Neufchatel, have also yielded much that throws light on 

 the habits and intelligence of these lake men. They 

 wove, they made pottery, they grew and parched corn 

 nay they ground it, and made biscuits, they ate apples, 

 raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, hazel and beech 

 nuts, and peas. They evidently fed on cereals, fruit, 

 fish, and the flesh of wild animals, for bones of the 

 following animals have been found. Brown bear, badger, 

 marten, pine marten, polecat, wolf, fox, wild cat, beaver, 

 elk, urus, bison, stag, roe-deer, wild boar, marsh boar 

 whilst their domestic animals were the boar, horse, ox, 

 goat, sheep, and dog. These, it must be remembered, 

 range over a wide period, including the stone and bronze 

 ages. They wore ornaments, too, for pins, and bracelets 

 have been found. Lake dwellings have been found in 

 Scotland, England, Italy, Germany and France so that 

 this practice seems to have obtained very widely. In 

 Ireland they made artificial islands in the lakes, called 

 Crannoges, on which they erected their dwellings. Pile 

 dwellings now exist, and are inhabited in many parts of 

 the world. 



We have other traces of prehistoric man in the 

 shell mounds, kjokkenmoddings, or kitchen middens, 

 which still exist in Denmark, and have been found in 

 Scotland on the shores of the Moray Firth and Loch 

 Spynie ; in Cornwall, and Devon, at St. Valery at the 

 mouth of the Somme, in Australia, Tierra del Fuego, 

 the Malay Peninsula, the Andaman Islands, and North 

 and South America, showing a very wide range. The 

 Danish kjokkenmoddings, when first thoroughly noticed, 

 (of course, in this century), were taken to be raised 

 beaches but when they were examined, it was found 

 that the shells were of four species of molluscs or shell- 



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