A Bronze Age village is discovered beneath Lake Lucerne
Archaeologists find remains of houses on stilts, possibly dating to 1000BC, which indicates Lucerne was settled earlier than thought.
Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a Bronze Age village beneath Lake Lucerne in Switzerland.
According to a press release, the settlement had long lain hidden under the lake’s muddy floor but was revealed when a trench was being cut for a new water pipeline between.
The Art Newspaper
April 30, 2021
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December 2019 and May 2020. In March 2020, the excavation unearthed pottery and wooden poles that were identified as prehistoric by a team of underwater archaeologists. The artefacts were then carbon dated to around 1000BC in the Bronze Age, when the lake level was five metres lower than today, leaving more inhabitable land in its vicinity. The archaeologists conducted further dives in February of this year