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A History of Sweden
Piece of Charred Apple
Found in Alvnstra.
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cracked the nuts with smaller stones, which have like-
wise been found in the same place.
In another part of the village we see a group of
women making garments of skins, or pelts. With bod-
kins made of the tough bones of
the wild cat, they pierce holes
near the edges of the skins and
bind them together with fine
threads or thongs of sinews, or
tendons. This is their way of
sewing. There is also another
workshop in the village where
an elderly man is engaged in
making flint tools and weapons
for war and the chase. Other
kinds of stone he has shaped into
axes. Some tools are sharpened and polished by rub-
bing them against other stones and applying sand and
water. So excellent are these stone implements that
men today have been able with their
use to fell trees and build a cabin with
considerable ease.
Most of the flint used by the people
of these villages came from Skane and
Halland, where it was quite plentiful.
In Skane many people were engaged in
hacking loose with picks made of deer’s
horn clear lumps of flint from the large
chalk beds found there. From these two
provinces large quantities of flint were
carried to the northernmost part of the ^
lint Arrowhead.
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