166 COMPARISON OF THE 



this is altered. We find not only, as before, axes, arrows* 

 and knives, but, in addition, swords, lances, sickles, ear-rings, 

 bracelets, pins, rings, and a variety of other articles. More- 

 over, it is a very remarkable fact, especially when we con- 

 sider the great, I might say the immense, number of bronze 

 celts which are found, that scarcely two of them have been 

 cast in the same mould. 



The pottery tells the same tale. There is no evidence that 

 the potter's wheel was known to men of the Stone age, and 

 the materials of which the Stone age pottery is composed are 

 very rough,* containing large grains of quartz, while that of 

 the Bronze age is more carefully prepared. The ornaments 

 of the two periods show also a great contrast. In the Stone 

 age they consist of impressions made by the nail or the 

 finger, and sometimes by a cord twisted round the soft clay. 

 The lines are all straight, or if curved are very irregular and 

 badly drawn. In the Bronze age all the patterns present in 

 the Stone age are continued, but in addition we find circles 

 and spirals ; while imitations of animals and plants are cha- 

 racteristic of the Iron age. 



In the following page is a table abstracted from a larger 

 one given by Professor Rutimeyer : 1, represents a single 

 individual ; 2, several individuals ; 3, denotes the species 

 which are common ; 4, those which are very common ; and 

 5, those which are present in great numbers. A glance will 

 show that wild animals preponderate in the Stone age of 

 Pfahlbauten at Moosseedorf and Wauwyl, tame ones at the 

 Bronze age settlement of Nidau. 



Thus, then, we see that the distinction between the ages 

 of Stone and Bronze is by no means confined to the mere 

 presence of metal. Some may consider that the evidence is 



* The extreme coarseness of the Swiss poses ; for the vessels found in tumuli 

 Lake pottery is, perhaps, owing to its of the Stone age, the material was often 

 having been intended for kitchen pur- more carefully prepared. 



