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342 no less varied and elegant in shape than our modern jugs, teapots, cups, bowls, basins, saucers, flower-vases, etc. Some had everted rims, and the majority flat bases. The ornamentation consisted of parallel and wavy ridges, knobs (sometimes perforated), incised triangles and crosses, circular or semicircular impressions, etc. But most characteristic are the horned appendages attached to the tops of the handles (PI. XXXVIII., Nos. 21 and 22), which were of the most varied and fanciful forms. These remarkable handles are not found on pottery outside the area of the terremare and certain districts influenced by the civilisation of their inhabitants. Nor is the fully developed ansa lunata found in the lake-dwellings within this area, with the exception of the stations at Peschiera, Mincio, and II Bor, in the south-east corner of Lake Garda.

Organic Remains.— The principal food of the terramaricoli consisted of the produce derived from agricultural and pastoral farming. An exhaustive analysis of their vegetable remains has not yet been made ; but, from the occasional stores of grain, chiefly in a carbonised state, and other provisions met with, they are believed to have been in the habit of eating the following seeds and fruits :— wheat (two varieties), beans, millet, acorns, beech-nuts, apples, pears, sloes, cornel-cherries, brambles, pistachio-nuts (Staphylea pinnata), hazel-nuts, and grapes (Vitis vinifera). Flax was largely cultivated, and its seeds were supposed to have been used as food, while of course its fibres were converted into thread, ropes, and cloth. Among the vegetable remains from Casale Zaffanella submitted to Professor Oreste Mattirolo in Turin, wheat, and both the seeds and wood of the vine were recognised.

As regards the domestic and wild animals on which the terramaricoli subsisted, we are in possession of more definite information, owing to the persevering watchfulness of Professor Strobel. The following is his corrected list down to the year 1883 (B. 136 (c)):—