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 172 Primitive Greece : Mycenian Art. together with vessels of polished stone, heaps of kitchen refuse, shells and broken bones of domestic animals, notably goats, sheep, horned cattle, but curiously enough hogs were extremely rare. Of wild animals, bones of hares, fallow deer, and boar- tusks were found in large quantities.^ From the animal matter collected here, Virchow rightly concluded that we are in presence of house-walls, and that the folk who inhabited them Fig, 39.— Wallsofiiist were shepherds and fishermen ; the chase was a pastime indulged in by the well-to-do alone.* In 1890 the rock was also laid bare on the west side of the hill, but no architectural remains were found ; hence it would appear that the primitive village, in this direction at least, did not extend much beyond the talus of the great trench under which it disappears.' Here, at a depth of thirty metres ' So writes Virchow, to whom Penot refers.— ^ Virchow, Heist nach Troas.
 * SCHLIEMANN and DciRPFELD.