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the one at Wauwyl, and becomes frequent only at the 
Steinberg. 
If succeeding investigations confirm the conclusions thus 
indicated, we may perhaps conclude that the domestic animals, 
which were comparatively rare in the stone period, became 
more frequent after the introduction of bronze, a change 
indicating and perhaps producing an alteration of habits on 
the part of the inhabitants. 
Rare, indeed, as they may have been, oxen, horses, sheep, 
and goats could not be successfully kept through the winter 
in the climate of Switzerland, without stores of provisions 
and some sort of shelter. A pastoral people, therefore, must 
have reached a higher grade than a mere nation of hunters. 
We know, moreover, in another manner, that at this period 
agriculture was not entirely unknown. This is proved in the 
most unexpected manner, by the discovery of carbonised 
cereals at various points. Wheat is most common, having 
been found at Meilen, Moosseedorf, and Wangen. At the 
latter place, indeed, many bushels were found, the grains being 
united in large thick lumps. At other times the grains are 
free, and without chaff, resembling our present wheat in size 
and form, while more rarely they are still in the ear. Ears of 
the Hordeum hexastichon L. (the six rowed barley) are some- 
what numerous. This species differs from the H. vulgare L. 
in the number of rows and in the smaller size of the grains. 
According to De Candolle, it was the species generally culti- 
vated by the ancient Romans, Greeks, and Egyptians. In 
the ears from Wangen, each row has generally ten or eleven 
grains, which however are smaller than those now grown. 
Still more unexpected was the discovery of bread, or rather 
cakes, for leaven does not appear to have been used. They 
were flat and round, from an inch to 15 lines in thickness, 
and, to judge from one specimen, had a diameter of four or 
five inches. In other cases the grains seem to have been 
