. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 366 PALAFITTES, OR LACUSTRIAN COXSTEUCTIONS recently described in a remarkable treatise by Professor 0. Heer, fDie PJlan- zcn der PfaJilbnuten, Zurich, 1S65,) to wbicb we would refer our readers, ex- tracting from it only the annexed group, which represents diifereut species of cereals cultivated in the age of stnne. (i^ig. 21a.) If thus skilled in the art of cultivating cereals, the possession by the inhabit- ants of implements of til- lag
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 366 PALAFITTES, OR LACUSTRIAN COXSTEUCTIONS recently described in a remarkable treatise by Professor 0. Heer, fDie PJlan- zcn der PfaJilbnuten, Zurich, 1S65,) to wbicb we would refer our readers, ex- tracting from it only the annexed group, which represents diifereut species of cereals cultivated in the age of stnne. (i^ig. 21a.) If thus skilled in the art of cultivating cereals, the possession by the inhabit- ants of implements of til- lage follows by necessary implication ; and it is from the station of Robenhausen again that the first revela- tion in this respect might have been anticipated. Keller, in effect, has just given us the description, ac- companied by a design, of on instrument formed of a portion of a stag's horn, fixed in a handle of wood, and so cut as to serve for a mattock on one side and a hook on the other, (^Ferd. Keller, 6th Report, page 249,) while the same ten- eviere has yielded other implements of husbandry, made of maple wood, and remarkable for their execu- tion when we consider the tools of that epoch, (Keller, 6th Report, page 249.) All this implies conditions very different from those of the populations of the age of the reindeer, who were only liunters, or of those of the kokkenmodings of Denmark, upon shell-fish collected on the sea shore. The inhabitants of our tenevieres had fixed habitations and much cattle. They made provision for winter; they took thought for their raiment and had regard to their toilet; they were expert in the art of spinning and weaving. They were no longer, therefore, in the savage state. Let us remember, in the last place, that, according to the latest researches, the tenevieres often comprise several archaeological strata, superposed and sepa- rated by deposits of peat, &c., which attain even a metre in depth (at Roben- hausen.) It may
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