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 ...
Those things are for [yes, you guessed it] the birds.
My pleasure.
I checked out, er, checked my privilege with those back issues. Yup, still there, whew.
No cheese, either.....................
Now we know where the holes in Swiss cheese come from.
https://www.thespruceeats.com/why-does-swiss-cheese-have-holes-591200
Crazy, why would they hide a village under a lake?
It’s odd there had never been a reference to it on FR before:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Sonnini+Manuscript
https://www.google.com/search?q=Sonnini+Manuscript+site%3Afreerepublic.com
The “Alps” keyword has other topics about a bolide impact that I left off the list, btw. This little one has three that are in there:
https://freerepublic.com/tag/kofels/index
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