The Swastika, the Earliest Known Symbol, and Its Migration / With Observations on the Migration of Certain Industries in Prehistoric Times

by Thomas Wilson

Étude sur quelques Nécropoles Halstattiennes de l’Autriche et de l’Italie. By Ernest Chantre, Swastika on Archaic Vase, fig. 5, p. 8. Croix Gammée, figs. 12 and 13, p. 14. Cross, p. 122. Swastika, pp. 137-139. Swastika sculpté sur pierre, Briteros, Portugal, fig. 133, p. 294.

Necropolis of Halstatt, pp. 13, 14; p. 139, fig. 84; p. 280, Report of spearhead with Swastika and runic inscription, found at Torcello, near Venice, by Undset.

Swastika, Vol. XX, 1886.

Frontispiece of January number. Swastika from Museum, Mayence.

MATTHEWS, Washington. The Mountain Chant.

Fifth Ann. Rep. Bureau of Ethnology, 1883-84, pp. 379-467, pls. X-XVIII, figs. 50-59.

Swastika in Navajo Mountain Chant. Second (?) Dry Painting, pl. XVII, pp. 450, 451.

MONTELIUS, Oscar. The | Civilization of Sweden | in Heathen Times | by | Oscar Montelius, Ph. D. | Professor at the National Historical Museum, Stockholm. | Translated from the Second Swedish Edition | Revised and enlarged for the author | by | Rev. F. H. Woods, B. D. | Vicar of Chalfont St. Peter. | With Map and Two Hundred and Five Illustrations. | London | Macmillan and Co. | and New York. | 1888.

pp. i-xvi, 1-214.

The wheel with cross on many monuments of the Bronze Age became almost unknown during the Age of Iron (in Scandinavia). It was the contrary with the Swastika. Compte-Rendu, Cong. Inter. d’Anthrop. et d’Arch. Préhistorique. 7^me session, 1874, I, pp. 439, 460.