The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-03-31
The Lake Dwellings of Northern Ger
many.

A very interesting lecture was deliv-
cred by Professor Virchow, of Berlin
University, in recent sitting of the
newly created Anthropological Society of
Berlin, on the Lake Dwellings of Nor
thern Germany" He said that no ira
ces of man and his works had been found
as yet in the earlier strata in North Ger
many of man in the reindeer period
only dubious traces had been discovered,
while great many cases of lake Gwellers
have been discovered. The first discov,
cry of the latter kind was made in a turf
moor near Wismar, near Menlenburg-
Schwerin. Another settlement is found
near the village of Lubtow, on the Phone,
in Pomerania lake dwelling was also
discovered in the Werbalin lake, not far
from Angcrsmund and ,Joachimstal, near
the village of Altenhof (Posen), and an
other near Arnswald (Neumarkl In the
lake of Hitzdrof.
A very large village was also discov-
cred in the Streitzig lake, near Neu Slit.
ten, during very dry season, though nc
implements or utensils were found. Neal
Daber, in Lower Pomcrania, however, in
the Persanzig lake, near Neu Stettin, in
the Klopp lake, near Noldenburg, and in
lake near Soldin, where lake dwellings
have been found, the structure of the ed
ifices could be seen and a great variety OF
interesting objects of all kinds were
found. All these settlements belong to
tie iron age, with the exception of those
in the Soldin and Phone lakes, which ap
peared to have hourished in the stone
and bronze periods Nothing is recorded
in the oldest documents and chronicles OF
North Germany about the lake dwellings
and all must, therefore, be referred to a
period preceding the recorded history o.
the country. This assertion is also cor
roborated by the fact that bones of the
elk have been found in many Of the lake
villages, and the animal is never men
toned by native chroniclers as belonging
to the fauna of the country.
The lake houses near Daber, in The
Persauzig lake, and the Phone lake, are
found to have been erected not only up
on foundation of stakes or piles, bu
every one is also placed upon parallelo
gram of horizontal beams. This kind o
structure for lake dwellings is, as yet, pc
culiar to North Germany. The lak'
dwellings near Daber, in the Soldin lake
connected with land dwellings,. kind o
lOItiuCN i0iiiHotlo, pioNlLiS t'ldu tIC tE'
kinds of structures are of the same age
The ornamentations of the urns and YES
sells found in the two are also similar. =
La North Germany this ornamentatio1
consists of horizontal lines. which encir
Gle the vessels either in straight or wave
like lines; perpendicular or slantin
lines have not been found This latte
kind of ornamentation is characteristi
of the Mark and Pomeranian arms. 0
vegetable nourishment there have bee
found hazel-nuts, carbonized corn,
burnt apple, and the stones of cherrie
and plums. Of animals have been foun
more especially the bones of domesti
animals, which had been broken in orde
to extract the marrow. Traces of swim
are numerous. Besides these, the bone
of dogs, goats, cattle, sheep, horses, an
of wild animals, deer, roe, elk and bes
yer, have been found.