Title: The end of the lake-dwellings in the Circum-Alpine region
Description: "After more than 3500 years of occupation in the Neolithic and Bronze Age, the many lake-dwellings around the Circum-Alpine region 'suddenly' came to an end. Throughout that period alternating phases of occupation and abandonment illustrate how resilient lacustrine populations were against change: cultural/environmental factors might have forced them to relocate temporarily, but they always returned to the lakes. So why were the lake-dwellings finally abandoned and what exactly happened towards the end of the Late Bronze Age that made the lake-dwellers change their way of life so drastically? The new research presented here draws upon the results of a four-year-long project dedicated to shedding light on this intriguing conundrum"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Human settlements, Iron age, Bronze age, Antiquities, Social change, Environmental conditions, Social conditions, Human ecology, Lake-dwellers and lake-dwellings, History, Alps, history, Ecology
Places: Alps Region