[blam]

GGG Ping.

[squarebarb]

Thanks, blam. I am always interested in these articles.

I wonder what the Baltic village was like?

Also wonder what the climatological situation was in about 4,000 B.C.

Isn’t that about the same time frame in which Oetzi lived?

[SlowBoat407]

And the world weeps for the loss of a glacier... several thousand years ago.

[Oberon]

Since it was made of wood scientists used dendrochronology – the technique of dating by tree rings – to give a precise figure of 3863 BC.

I do not understand this. Did they count the rings of a nearly 4,000-year-old tree that was still growing at the bottom of the lake?

This absurd answer is the only way I can come up with to use tree-ring-counting to date the construction to within a year. Otherwise some interpolation must be going on.

[SunkenCiv]

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[gnarledmaw]

"One of Switzerland’s hit TV programmes of this summer ..."

Anyone 'round here know the name of that show? That sounds like the rare sort of TV show that I might be interested in sitting through...

[Fred Nerks]

Cultural Response to Environmental Change on the BA northern Alpine lakes

The Middle Bronze Age hiatus in the northern Alpine region is one of the most intriguing occupational gaps within the whole lake-dwelling chronology. A particular feature of this abandonment is that it seems to have occurred fairly suddenly. Proof of this hypothesis comes from three lacustrine sites situated on two of the main northern Alpine lakes, namely Lake Constance and Lake Zurich. Archaeological as well as environmental analyses show that Bodman-Schachen 1 (Lake Constance), Arbon-Bleiche 2 (Lake Constance) and ZH-Mozartstrasse (Lake Zurich) were all deserted within a time span of five years in the last decade of the sixteenth century BC. But, if there was indeed an abrupt change in climate, how could the various lakes and in particular Lake Constance and Lake Zurich have responded in the same way to climatic variability? ...

Location of Middle Bronze Age former lake-dwellings in the Kreuzlingen region, Lake Constance

[Dustbunny]

Wow