These wooden utensils consist of bowls, ladles, knives,
tubs, etc. They used fire to hollow them out, and the blows of the flint
hatchet used to remove the charred portions, are still to be observed in
some specimens.

Illustration of Neolithic Weapons.--------------

The Neolithic people had learned how to manufacture pottery, though not
of a very superior quality. It is all hand-made: so the potter's wheel
had not yet been introduced. The material is clay mixed with gravel or
pounded shells. Very often they ornamented their clay vessels with lines
and dots. The bowls or jars were evidently suspended by cords, for the
bottom was made too rounding for them to stand erect. Besides, we find
the holes for the cords, and in some places handles.

Illustrations of Ax in Sheath, and Hafted Hatchet in Sheath.--

No notice of Neolithic tools would be complete without mentioning the
use made of horn and bone. One peculiar use for which they employed horn
was as a socket for holding other implements. Thus this figure shows
us an ax in a socket of horn. The middle of the socket is generally
perforated with a round or oval hole, intended to receive a handle of
oak, birch, or some other kind of wood adapted for such a use. The cut
below represents a hatchet of this kind. A number of these sockets have
been found, which were provided at the end opposite to the stone hatchet
with a strong and pointed tooth. These are boars' tusks, firmly buried
in the stag's horn. These instruments, therefore, fulfilled double
purposes: they cut or crushed with one end and pierced with the other.
Sockets are also found which are not only provided with the boars'
tusks, but are hollowed out at each end, so as to hold two flint
hatchets at once, as is seen in our next figure. Chisels and gouges
were also sometimes placed in bone handles. Portions of horn probably
at times did duty as hoes. We give a representation of such an
implement.<20> We must now seek some information as to how the men of
the Neolithic Age supported life.

Illustration of Sheath, with two Hatchets.---------Illustrations of
Chisels in Sheath, and Horn Hoe.---------

From the remains of fish at all the lake settlements it is evident they
formed no inconsiderable portion of their food. Fishing nets and hooks
have been discovered. They were successful hunters as well. But the men
of this age were no longer dependent on the chase for a livelihood. We
have mentioned se