Wetland-Archaeology in the Alpine Space. Overview and actual research issues.

Hafner, Albert (1 August 2015). Wetland-Archaeology in the Alpine Space. Overview and actual research issues. (Unpublished). In: XIX. INQUA Congress. Quaternary Perspectives on Climate Change, Natural Hazards and Civilization, Session Wetland archaeology and environmental change. Nagoya, Japan. 27.07.-02.08.2015.

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First indications of prehistoric sites in lakes of Switzerland go back more than 200 years and in 1854 Ferdinand Keller (1800-1881) published his famous book The Celtic Pile Dwellings in Swiss Lakes. Since these times, large-scale rescue excavations as well as survey and research projects have extended our knowledge about Neolithic and Bronze Age settlements in lakes, bogs and rivers around the European Alps. In 2011 a representative choice of 111 sites out of nearly 1000 in six countries around the Alps (Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Slovenia and Switzerland) were recognized by the UNESCO World Heritage committee as serial World Heritage. The lecture will give a general overview on prehistoric lake dwellings around the Alps (distribution, types of lakes/bogs and environment of sites, chronology/cultural units in the time scale 5300 to 800 BC) and present examples of well-documented settlement structures. The intense use of dendrochronological dating allowed the building up of a well-fixed chronological framework. In some cases dendrochronology is the basis for year-by-year reconstructions of prehistoric village biographies and detailed insights in the life cycle of early agrarian settlements. Beside these local events the grouped repartition of lake dwelling remains on the time scale makes a more global correlation between Holocene lake levels and the preservation of archaeological layers likely.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Division/Institute:	06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of History and Archaeology > Institute of Archaeological Sciences > Pre- and Early History
UniBE Contributor:	Hafner, Albert
Subjects:	900 History > 930 History of ancient world (to ca. 499)
Language:	English
Submitter:	Albert Hafner-Lafitte
Date Deposited:	13 Oct 2015 15:00
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 14:49
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/72127