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It’s ten years since over a hundred ancient stilt villages sites in the Alps received UNESCO World Heritage status. These sites have been found in lakes, rivers and bogs in Switzerland, Germany, Italy, France, Austria, and Slovenia.
Improved research methods have helped archaeologists learn much more about the civilizations that lived in these now-submerged villages. swissinfo.ch met a team of diving archaeologists in Sutz-Lattrigen on Lake Biel in western Switzerland, who showed us how they carried out their painstaking – and often freezing cold – research work.
How science is helping unearth ancient submerged Alpine settlements
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Researchers continue to be surprised by new stilt house findings in and around the Alps and what remains to be uncovered.
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How science is helping unearth ancient submerged Alpine settlements
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Researchers continue to be surprised by new stilt house findings in and around the Alps and what remains to be uncovered.
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Stretching across six European countries, they were added to the Unesco World Heritage List in June 2011. There are 111 sites in all, with 56 of them in Switzerland. The dwellings in France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Italy and Slovenia, lie deep in lakes or buried in sand on lake shores. Yet for Unesco, they qualify…
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Scientists from the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research at Bern University say there’s a chain of evidence supporting a theory that shepherds living in southwestern Switzerland around 5,000 BC drove their herds to pastures situated at around 2,750 metres above sea level in the Alps. “We have strong indications that argue that people were…
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An archaeological discovery in Switzerland points to significant links between areas north and south of the Alps 5,000 years ago.
Divers to retrieve Bronze Age artefacts from Swiss lake
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Archaeologists are diving into Switzerland’s Lake Thun to rescue the remains of Bronze Age pile dwellings before they wash away.
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