BONE IMPLEMENTS. 135 



of any animal they could catch. They ate the flesh, 

 FIG 122 used the skin for clothing, picked every 



fragment of marrow out of the bones, and 

 then, in many cases, fashioned the bones 

 themselves into weapons. The larger and 

 more compact ones served as hammers, and, 

 as well as horns of the deer, were used as 

 handles for hatchets. In some cases, pieces 

 of bone were worked to an edge, but they 

 are neither hard nor sharp enough to cut 

 well. Bone awls are numerous, and may 

 have been used in preparing skins for 

 clothes. Fig. 122 represents a chisel, or 

 scraper, of bone, from Wangen. .In most of 

 the settlements, ribs split open and pointed 

 at one end have been found, but for what 

 purpose they were intended it is difficult to say. Perhaps 

 they were used in netting, or in the manufacture of pottery. 

 A few objects made of wood have also been found at Wau- 

 wyl and elsewhere ; but these, even if originally numerous, 

 would be difficult to distinguish from the surrounding peat, 

 especially as it contains so many branches of trees and other 

 fragments of wood ; and it would also be very difficult to 

 extract them entire. Perhaps, therefore, implements of wood 

 may have been much more varied and common than the 

 collections would appear to indicate. 



The pottery of the Stone age presents nearly the same 

 characters in all the settlements. Very rude and coarse, it 

 is generally found in broken pieces, and few entire vessels 

 have been obtained. There is no evidence that the potter's- 

 wheel was known, and the baking is very imperfect, having 

 apparently taken place in an open fire. The material is also 

 very rude, and generally contains numerous grains of quartz. 

 The form is frequently cylindrical, but several 01 the jars 



