174 J. Lubbock on the Ancient Lake Habitations of Switzerlani 



The Sheep of the Stoneperiod differed from the ordinary form, 

 in its small size, fine legs, and short, goat-like horns : particulars, 

 in which it is nearly resembled by some northern, and mountam 

 varieties at the present day, as for instance by the small sheep of 

 Shetlands, Orkneys, Welsh hills, and parts of the Alps. At 

 Wauvvyl, however, M. Eutimeyer found traces of an individual 

 with large horns. 



The number of Wild species of Sheep is so great, and our 

 knowledge of them is so deficient, that M. Eiitimeyer does not 

 venture to express any opinion concerning the origin of our do- 

 mestic varieties except that he is inclined to trace them up to 

 several wild races. 



It is singular, that though remains of the Horse have yet been 

 found in all the Pileworks, they are so rare that their presence 

 may almost be considered accidental : thus Wangen has only pro- 

 duced a single tooth, Moosseedorf, a metatarsal bone, which has 

 been polished on one side, Robenhausen, a single os naviculnre 

 tarsi and Wauwyl, only a few bones, wliich may fill have be- 

 longed to a single specimen. On the other hand, when we come 

 to the Bronze period, we find at Steinberg, numerous remains ot 

 this species, so that, as far as these slight indications go, the Horse 

 though undoubtedly present in the Stone age, seems to have 

 been rarer than it became at subsequent periods. All there- 

 mains of the Horse belonged undoubtedly to the domestic species. 



Though he refers some bones to the Wild Boar, and others to 

 the Domestic Hog, yet he considers that the greatest numbers ot 

 the remains of this genus belong to a different race, which he calls 

 Sus scrofa palustris. This variety was, in his opinion, lesspo\^^- 

 erful and dangerous than the Wild Boar, the tusks being niucli 

 smaller in proportion ; in fact he describes it as having with the 

 molar teeth of an ordinary full grown Wild Boar, the premolars, 

 canines, and incisives of a young Domestic Hog. He considers 

 that all the bones of this variety from Moosseedorf, belonged to 

 wild individuals, while of those from Nidau-Steinberg, Roben- 

 hausen, Wauwyl, and Concise, some bore in his opinion eviden- 

 ces of domestication. It has been supposed by some naturalists 

 that this variety was founded only on female specimens, but in nis 

 last work, M. ELiitimeyer /iombats this opinion at some length, and 

 gives copious descriptions and measurements of different parts- 

 He also points out numerous sexual differences in the S. V^^f 

 tris, of the same nature, but not so well marked, as those of the 



Wild Boar, Relying also on its well defined geographical i 

 historical range, he denies that it can be considered as across — 

 tween the Wild Boar and Domestic Hog, or that the differences 

 which separate it from the former, can be looked upon as mere 

 individual peculiarities. He considers, indeed, that as a ^vua 

 animal it became extinct at a very early period, though the tame 



