Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER V. THE DANISH KJOKKEN-MODD1NGS. Fauna of the Shell-Mounds -- Antiquity inferred from the absence of metal, and rudeness of flints -- Fallacy of this reasoning -- Shell-mound of the Roman period on the island of Herm -- Loch Spynie -- Shell-mound at Newhaven, Sussex, of Boman date, and also in the Isle of Thanet -- Recent discovery of bronze in Danish shell-mound -- Similar accumulations on the coasts of the United States. Archaeologists appeal next, in proof of the antiquity of man, to the Danish "kitchen-middens" or shell- inounds on the eastern coasts of Denmark. In these shell-heaps, which are the remains of the repasts of the rude fishermen who anciently dwelt upon these shores, are found implements of flint, pottery, and the bones of the stag, the roedeer, the wild boar, the urus, the dog, the fox, the bear, the wolf,