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Bronze Age village found under Swiss lake
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| April 23, 2021
| Keystone-SDA/Canton of Lucerne/ilj
Posted on 05/03/2021 2:40:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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posted on
05/03/2021 2:40:52 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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posted on
05/03/2021 2:41:15 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
Archaeologists had been looking for proof of settlement for some time, but had been hampered by a thick layer of mud at the bottom of the lake. I'm wearing my shocked face.
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posted on
05/03/2021 2:43:10 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
To: SunkenCiv
Global warming raised the sea level and swallowed up the village.
To: SunkenCiv
It would have never occurred to me to build a village under a lake.
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posted on
05/03/2021 2:48:13 PM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
(Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
To: SunkenCiv
Oh, no! The Bronze Age folks caused global warming with their outdoor fires resulting in their villages were flooded.
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posted on
05/03/2021 2:53:03 PM PDT
by
bgill
To: SunkenCiv
What pile drivers were available 3,000 years ago?
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posted on
05/03/2021 2:53:57 PM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“If we were in a real pandemic, there’d be no need to declare it.”)
To: Larry Lucido
It would have never occurred to me to build a village under a lake.It wouldn't? I guess you're just an old, umm, stick in the mud!
To: SunkenCiv
"Bronze Age village found under in Swiss lake"
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posted on
05/03/2021 3:05:17 PM PDT
by
TexasGator
(Z1z)
To: ClearCase_guy
Also, the deep water on top the mud slowed them down a little. :^)
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posted on
05/03/2021 3:06:49 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Larry Lucido
Those Swiss will do anything to remain neutral. Living under a lake made it easy.
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posted on
05/03/2021 3:08:54 PM PDT
by
cyclotic
(Live your life in such a way that they hate you as much as they hated Rush Limbaugh)
To: Larry Lucido
To: It would have never occurred to me to build a village under a lake.All the houses had running water in those days
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posted on
05/03/2021 3:11:10 PM PDT
by
llevrok
(I'm old enough to remember when the quarantine was to be 2 weeks)
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posted on
05/03/2021 3:11:26 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Larry Lucido
It would have never occurred to me to build a village under a lake.It's a lot of work, and requires technology not normally associated with the bronze age.
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posted on
05/03/2021 3:12:30 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: ProtectOurFreedom
That’s a great video. I was at a site in Indonesia where a huge boulder (20-foot diameter or so) had come to rest near the road.
A bunch of guys drilled holes in it manually (hit the drill bit rod with a hammer, rotate the drill bit, hit again, and repeat 1000 times. Once they had a bunch of holes drilled they were going to put clay inside the holes which would expand and crack the boulder into smaller pieces.
I’m guessing using explosives would be too dangerous with the road and buildings nearby.
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posted on
05/03/2021 3:15:08 PM PDT
by
21twelve
(Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful!)
To: SunkenCiv
My understanding is that these people were celts.
That the people of britian were not actually genetic celts but rather partook of the celtic culture that spread through europe after their arrival in europe around 1200 BC. For example the welch and the irish were more closely related to the coastal peoples of spain and portugal.
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posted on
05/03/2021 3:16:21 PM PDT
by
ckilmer
To: 21twelve
When I worked in China in the mid 70s, they cast a concrete pedestal for the boiler stack about 2 feet two high. They had jackhammers and excavators to use, but nope. They have a dozen guys crude chisels formed from soft steel rebar and put them to work chiseling it down. I was flabbergasted. Whenever I heard the claim that “China has no unemployment,” I knew the real reason why.
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posted on
05/03/2021 3:17:42 PM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“If we were in a real pandemic, there’d be no need to declare it.”)
To: ckilmer
The Helvetii, who were later replaced by the Germanic tribes, were indeed Celtic, and were conquered and/or coopted by the Romans. They were an earlier coat of paint, as it were.
Ancient genomes reveal social and genetic structure of Late Neolithic Switzerland
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15560-x
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posted on
05/03/2021 3:23:22 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
The site I was at (mining site in West Papua New Guinea) had to take in lots of workers from the cities. Sort of a paid welfare type thing. Two guys would be hosing down a 50’ x 100’ concrete pad all day long.
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posted on
05/03/2021 3:24:56 PM PDT
by
21twelve
(Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful!)
To: Larry Lucido
“It would have never occurred to me to build a village under a lake.”
Does this lake have a street address?
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posted on
05/03/2021 3:35:04 PM PDT
by
CottonBall
(MAKE REPUBLICANS WHIGS AGAIN!)
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