DIFFERENT LAKE- VILLAGES. 



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not yet sufficient to justify any conclusion. Still tlie 

 nature and execution of -the ornaments the manufacture 

 of pottery, the presence of the potter's wheel, the greater 

 variety of requirements, evidenced by the greater variety 

 of implements, the indications of more advanced husbandry, 

 the diminution of wild animals and the increase of tame 



ones all indicate a higher civilisation for the inhabitants of 

 Morges and Nidau, than for those of Moosseedorf and 

 Wauwyl. 



Col. Schwab has found at the Steinberg more than twenty 



* Considered by Prof. Riitimeyer to 

 have been at first wild, but domesticated 



at Nidau and in the later Pfahlbauten. 



