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and their having been almost always broken open for the sake 

 >of the marrow, are all evidences of human interference. 



Two species, the one wild, the other domestic, are especially 

 .numerous the stag and the ox. Indeed, the remains of these 

 two equal those of all the others together. It is, however, 

 an interesting fact, that in the older settlements, as at 

 Moosseedorf, Wauwyl, and Eobenhausen, the stag exceeds 

 the ox in the number of specimens indicated, while the 

 reverse is the case in the more modern settlements of the 

 western lakes, as, for instance, those at Wangen and Meilen. 



Next to these in order of abundance is the hog. Less nu- 

 merous again, and generally represented by single specimens 

 where the preceding occur in numbers, are the roe, the goat, 

 and the sheep, which latter is most abundant in the later set- 

 tlements. With these rank the fox and the martens. Foxes 

 are occasionally eaten by the Esquimaux,* and Captain Lyon 

 seems to have taken rather a fancy to them.f They also 

 appear, whether from choice or necessity, to have been eaten 

 during the Stone period. This conclusion is derived from 

 the fact that the bones often present the marks of knives, 

 and have been opened for the sake of the marrow. While, 

 however, the fox is very frequent in the Pileworks of the 

 Stone epoch, it has not yet been found in any settlement 

 belonging to the Bronze period. Oddly enough, the dog is 

 rarer than the fox, at least as far as the observations yet go, in 

 the Lake-dwellings of the Stone period, though more common 

 than the horse.; and of other species but few specimens have 

 been met with, though in some localities the beaver, the 

 badger, and the hedgehog appear in some numbers. The 

 bear and the wolf, as well as the urus, the bison, and the elk, 

 seem to have occasionally been captured ; it is probable that 

 -the latter species were taken in concealed pits. 



* Crantz, History of Greenland, vol. i. p. 73. 

 f Lyons' Journal, p. 77. 



