Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1880 — Antiquity of Forks. [ARTICLE]

Antiquity of Forks.

Among the recent finds in the explorations among the lake dwellings in Switzerland is a pair of forks, apparently invented for table use, says tho Scientific American. They were made from the metatarsal bone of a stag. This gives a high antiquity to the fork. But, taking into account the modes of life the dwellers in these dwellings must have led, it must require a strong imagination to suppose they sat down to meals using forks.