Reviews — Dr. Munro's Lake-Dwellings. 469 



io the terramara deposits of Italy, etc. In short there is hardly any 

 corner of the lake-dwelling area in Europe which has not yielded 

 new materials, throwing more or less light on this strange phase of 

 Prehistoric life." 



The present volume, Dr. Munro tells us, originated with the 

 Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, who offered him the Ehind 

 lectureship in Archaeology for 1888, and suggested that the course 

 of six lectures should be on the " Lake-dwellings of Europe." 

 These lectures are here printed in extenso, and are very copiously 

 illustrated by drawings of all the most typical antiquities discovered, 

 prepared as far as possible from the actual objects by Dr. and Mrs, 

 Munro, who perambulated the whole of Central Europe with note- 

 and sketch-books in hand visiting, as far as practicable, the sites of 

 lake-dwellings, and searching museums and libraries wherever they 

 thought such relics or records were to be found. 



"The eastern limit," we are told, "of the region thus visited may 

 be repi'esented by a line drawn from Konigsberg to Trieste, passing 

 through the intermediate towns of Krakow, Buda-Pesth, and Agram. 

 The materials brought together from this area are, to a very con- 

 siderable extent, absolutely new to British archeeologists." Care 

 has also been taken, as far as possible, not to repeat illustrations 

 given by Keller's translator, except where the objects are the best 

 or the only representatives of their kind. To show how well 

 Dr. Munro has carried out his task, and how great is the area over 

 which he has travelled, we must consult the work itself; indeed, it 

 is one which every student of prehistoric archaeology must possess 

 in order to be posted up to date in all the researches which have 

 been carried on since the date of the last English edition of Keller's 

 work. 



The first lecture gives an account of the earliest discovery of Lake- 

 dwellings ; the settlements of the shores of Lake Ziirich ; those of 

 Western Switzerland and France (pp. 1—109). Some idea may be 

 formed of the vast number of objects of ornament, weapons, and 

 articles of domestic use, in stone, bronze, earthenware, iron, bone 

 or wood, delineated in this work, when we find that in the 23 page- 

 illustrations to the first lecture alone, there are 517 separate figures 

 engraved. 



The second lecture (pp. 110-185) deals with the settlements in 

 Eastern Switzerland, the Danubian Valley, and Carniola. Here is 

 given an account of some curious traps made of wood which have 

 been found in settlements as widely separated as Ireland, North 

 Germany, Styria, and Italy, which it is suggested may have been 

 used as Beaver or Otter traps. As many as 52 individual remains 

 of the Beaver were obtained at Laibach alone, where these supposed 

 beaver-traps were also met with. Four hundred and fifteen objects 

 are figured in the text to illustrate this lecture. 



The third lecture (pp. 186-276) treats of the Lake-dwellings and 

 pile-structures in Italy, including the Terramara Settlements in the 

 Po Yalley, which are illustrated by 527 figures in the text. 



The fourth lecture (pp. 277-348) describes the remains found at 



