[124] _Antiqua_, 1883, p. 15.
[125] _Matériaux, etc._, vol. xvi. p. 215.
[126] _Bulletino Palet. It._, An. i. p. 7.
[127] While visiting Mr. Flinders Petrie's collection of antiquities
from Egypt lately exhibited in London, I was much interested in
seeing a well-shaped wooden sickle with a groove in which a flint
saw was still cemented in its place. The groove is adapted for three
such saws, but only one remained in its place. The wooden portion of
this unique instrument is shaped like a modern corn-hook, with the
exception that the handle turns downwards at a right angle to the
cutting plane, and the opposite end runs out into a long sharp point.
It measures 12½ inches from tip to tip, and 17 from the point to
the most bulging part of the body. From the same place were various
other flint implements and some semilunar knives or saws, precisely
similar to those so common in the Scandinavian archæological area.
Mr. Petrie also pointed out some flint objects which were undoubtedly
an imitation of implements of copper and bronze with which they were
associated. The tombs of Hawara in which these relics were discovered
are said to be of the 12th dynasty, dating some 2,600 years B.C.
[128] B. 423, pp. 80, 90; _Bul. Palet. Ital._, An. xii. p. 80.
[129] _Archiv für Anthropologie_, vol. xvi.
[130] _Antiqua._ 1883, p. 89.
[131] _Corr.-blatt_, 1882, 1883, and B. 401.
[132] _Mitt. der Anth. Ges. Wien_, B. xiii. pp. 213 and 216.
[133] _Neues Jahrb. für Mineralogie_, B. iii., 1884.
[134] _Archæological Journal_, vol. xxxvi., 1880.
[135] _Zeit. für Ethn._, bd. xv. pp. 163-190.
[136] _Antiqua_, 1885, p. 138.
[137] _Zeit. für Ethn._, vol. xviii., _Verhand._, p. 83.
[138] _Ibid._, p. 411.
[139] _Ibid._, vol. xix. p. 97.
[140] _Ibid._, p. 140.
[141] Castelfranco: _Bul. Palet. Ital._, Anno iv. p. 50.
[142] _Nuovo Giornale Bot. Ital._, vol. xxii., N. 1, 1890.
[143] An excellent summary of the evidence establishing this fact is
given by Baron de Baye in his recent work "Archæologie Prehistorique,"
chap. vi.
[144] _Zeit. für Ethn._, vol. xviii., _Verhand._, p. 368.
[145] See also _Anzeiger_, 1880, p. 46; and 1882, p. 221.
[146] _Archéologie Celtique et Gauloise_, p. 368.
[147] _Double Sépulture Gauloise de la Gorge-Meillet (Marne)._ By Ed.
Fourdrignier. Paris, 1878.
[148] W. Osborne, _Zur Beurtheilung des prähistorischen Fundes auf dem
Hradischt bei Stradonic in Böhmen. Mitt. der Anth. Ges. Wien_, vol. x.
[149] _Bull. dell' Inst._, 1875, pp. 50 and 178, and 1877, p. 74.
[150] _Bull. Palet. It._, anno xii., p. 194, etc., with six plates.
[151] _Revue Archéologique_, 1864.
[152] "Horæ Ferales," pp. 172 to 189.
[153] "Recherches Anthropologiques dans le Caucase," vol i. p. 70.