Ancient people could breathe under water?
Posted on 05/03/2021 2:40:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists have, for the first time, found traces of a Bronze Age lakeside village under the surface of Lake Lucerne. The find shows that the city of Lucerne area was already populated 3,000 years ago.
Traces of a pile dwelling (or stilt house) village came to light while laying a pipeline in the natural harbour area. The remnants were found by underwater archaeologists around four metres below the water surface...
Archaeologists had been looking for proof of settlement for some time, but had been hampered by a thick layer of mud at the bottom of the lake. Work on the pipeline however revealed around 30 prehistoric wooden piles or stilts and five pieces of pottery.
The wood and pottery have been tested and dated to the late Bronze Ages, so around 1,000 years BC.
The find coincides with the 10th anniversary of prehistoric lakeside pile dwellings in Alpine countries - including in Switzerland - being given Unesco World Heritage Site status.
In all, 111 of the most important sites in six countries have gained the label. Of these, 56 are in Switzerland.
Unesco describes the group of dwellings as “one of the most important sources for the study of early agrarian societies in the region”.
(Excerpt) Read more at swissinfo.ch ...
Every house could have had bronze plumbing fixtures!
Watching more Monte Python will improve your imagination.
They anticipated this discovery. (See 1:39 in the link below)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue7wM0QC5LE
Interesting picture...
They had animal-drawn wagons in 3000 BC?
When was the wheel invented?
Could have sworn it was around the time I was born...
Ancient people could breathe under water?
It can’t have been too hard to invent and reinvent the wheel. It’s just that the materials out of which the wheels were made hasn’t survived.
Also, these folks were literally on the lake, probably used boats a lot, boats of some kind have been around for at least 800,000 years, based on the artifacts of that age found on Flores island, which hasn’t been joined to the mainland in millions of years.
Appears they needed taller stilts
For those into weird stuff....
Maybe it was submerged when the earthquake made lake Lucerne take on the shape of Jesus on the Cross. Or when Pontus Pilate killed himself by the lake.
St Paul reported it on his overland return from Londonum.
HINT: This is for those familiar with the 29th Chapter of the book of ACTS.
https://rejectedscriptures.weebly.com/acts-of-the-apostles-chapter-29.html
18 And after much preaching and toil, Paul and his fellow laborers passed into Helvetia, and came to Mount Pontius Pilate, where he who condemned the Lord Jesus dashed himself down headlong, and so miserably perished.
19 Immediately a torrent gushed out of the mountain and washed his body, broken in pieces, into a lake.
20 And Paul stretched forth his hands upon the water, and prayed unto the Lord, saying O Lord God, give a sign unto all nations that here Pontius Pilate which condemned thine only-begotten son, plunged down headlong into the pit.
21 And while Paul was yet speaking, behold, there came a great earthquake, and the face of the waters was changed, and the form of the lake like unto the Son of Man hanging in an agony upon the Cross.
22 And a voice came out of heaven saying, Even Pilate hath escaped the wrath to come for he washed his hands before the multitude at the blood-shedding of the Lord Jesus
23 When, therefore, Paul and those that were with him saw the earthquake, and heard the voice of the angel, they glorified God, they were mightily strengthened in the spirit.
Very cool material. Thanks.
Did the Helvetii invent that famous font helvetica?
I remember watching a YouTube video on a reenactment of people living in the iron age. On the third day half the people got food poisoning from undercooked chicken.
That is fascinating, and so is the website.
The six lost years from Paul’s life might be explained by this
interesting conjecture.
Global lake warming? 😀
It's just that when I was born (1933), and almost to the end of WWII, in the winter we had horses pulling wooden snow plows on sidewalks and local neighborhood streets... As well as a milk man who also had a horse-pulled vehicle...
So the cart in the picture looked familiar...😀
Back in the 1960s, either LIFE or National Geographic published a large book of early civilizations in Europe.
I remember the painted illustrations of the Swiss lake settlements showed HOT shapely NAKED GIRLS!(WOW)! and how the people lived.
I learned to like ancient history back then.
No kidding. Those Swiss always plan ahead. They didn’t even need a boat to “lose” their assault spears and their high capacity hatchets.
Oh.
So that’s where I put it.
Thanks. I’ve been looking for that for ages.
But no cuckoo clocks...........................
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