The Swastika: The Earliest Known Symbol & its Migrations
Prehistoric Objects Associated With the Swastika, Found In both Hemispheres, and Believed to Have Passed by Migration
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comparing the spindle-whorls from the Western Hemisphere with those from the Eastern hemisphere. There is greater diversity in size, form and decoration in the American than in the European whorls. A series of European whorls from any given locality will afford a fair representation of those from almost every other locality. But it is different with the American specimens. Each section in America has a different style, not only different from the European specimens, but different from those of neighboring sections. Among the eighteen thousand whorls found by Dr. Schliemann on the hill of Hissarlik, there is scarcely one so large as those here shown from Mexico, while, on the other hand, there were only a few as small as the largest of the series from Peru. The difference in size and material in the Pueblo whorls has already been noticed. The ornamentation is also peculiar in that it adopts, not a particular style common to the utensil, but that it