. Ilios : the city and country of the Trojans : the results of researches and discoveries on the site of Troy and throughout the Troad in the years 1871-72-73-78-79, including an autobiography of the author. of a nail, itmay probably have been used as a brooch. Nos. 139 and 140 are carvedimplements of bone, probably for female needle-work. Similar awls andneedles of bone occur in large numbers in the debris of the four lowestpre-historic cities at Hissarlik. Awls and needles of bone, even needleswith perforated heads, are found plentifully in the cavern-habitations in theDordogne, and may be s
. Ilios : the city and country of the Trojans : the results of researches and discoveries on the site of Troy and throughout the Troad in the years 1871-72-73-78-79, including an autobiography of the author. of a nail, itmay probably have been used as a brooch. Nos. 139 and 140 are carvedimplements of bone, probably for female needle-work. Similar awls andneedles of bone occur in large numbers in the debris of the four lowestpre-historic cities at Hissarlik. Awls and needles of bone, even needleswith perforated heads, are found plentifully in the cavern-habitations in theDordogne, and may be seen in the Museum of St. Germain-en-Laye, whereare also exhibited a number of them found in French Dolmens. Theywere, as Prof. Virchow informs me, in use in Germany in every perioddown to the twelfth century , and are found there in are also frequent in the Swiss Lake-dwellings,^ in the Lake-dwellings in the Lake of Constance,^ in the caverns of Inzighofen,^ inthe pre-historic settlements in Hungary,*^ on ancient sites in the AleutianIslands, in Kentucky, in San Miguel Island, California, &c. ;^ in Denmarkon sites of the Stone age,^ and elsewhere. The object No. 141 represents.
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