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Bronze Age village found under Swiss lake
SWI swissinfo.ch - a branch of Swiss Broadcasting Corporation SRG SSR ^ | 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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To: DannyTN; llevrok

Every house could have had bronze plumbing fixtures!


21 posted on 05/03/2021 3:42:10 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: SunkenCiv
Were these people proto-Celtic, or perhaps proto-Italic, living in this area before invading Italy? Current anthropology believes that the Western Indo-Europeans migrated into what is now Hungary before spreading into Western Europe.
22 posted on 05/03/2021 3:44:13 PM PDT by Wallace T. ( )
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To: Wallace T.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3956011/posts?page=18#18


23 posted on 05/03/2021 3:47:43 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Larry Lucido

Watching more Monte Python will improve your imagination.

They anticipated this discovery. (See 1:39 in the link below)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue7wM0QC5LE


24 posted on 05/03/2021 3:47:58 PM PDT by Hieronymus
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To: SunkenCiv

Interesting picture...
They had animal-drawn wagons in 3000 BC?
When was the wheel invented?
Could have sworn it was around the time I was born...


25 posted on 05/03/2021 3:50:43 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: SunkenCiv
Bronze Age village found under Swiss lake

Ancient people could breathe under water?


26 posted on 05/03/2021 3:53:14 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: SuperLuminal

It can’t have been too hard to invent and reinvent the wheel. It’s just that the materials out of which the wheels were made hasn’t survived.

Also, these folks were literally on the lake, probably used boats a lot, boats of some kind have been around for at least 800,000 years, based on the artifacts of that age found on Flores island, which hasn’t been joined to the mainland in millions of years.


27 posted on 05/03/2021 3:53:24 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Appears they needed taller stilts


28 posted on 05/03/2021 4:09:12 PM PDT by digger48
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To: SunkenCiv

For those into weird stuff....

Maybe it was submerged when the earthquake made lake Lucerne take on the shape of Jesus on the Cross. Or when Pontus Pilate killed himself by the lake.

St Paul reported it on his overland return from Londonum.
HINT: This is for those familiar with the 29th Chapter of the book of ACTS.

https://rejectedscriptures.weebly.com/acts-of-the-apostles-chapter-29.html

18 And after much preaching and toil, Paul and his fellow laborers passed into Helvetia, and came to Mount Pontius Pilate, where he who condemned the Lord Jesus dashed himself down headlong, and so miserably perished.

19 Immediately a torrent gushed out of the mountain and washed his body, broken in pieces, into a lake.

20 And Paul stretched forth his hands upon the water, and prayed unto the Lord, saying O Lord God, give a sign unto all nations that here Pontius Pilate which condemned thine only-begotten son, plunged down headlong into the pit.

21 And while Paul was yet speaking, behold, there came a great earthquake, and the face of the waters was changed, and the form of the lake like unto the Son of Man hanging in an agony upon the Cross.

22 And a voice came out of heaven saying, Even Pilate hath escaped the wrath to come for he washed his hands before the multitude at the blood-shedding of the Lord Jesus

23 When, therefore, Paul and those that were with him saw the earthquake, and heard the voice of the angel, they glorified God, they were mightily strengthened in the spirit.


29 posted on 05/03/2021 4:29:49 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ((Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.))
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To: SuperLuminal
You're thinking of American racing mags...


30 posted on 05/03/2021 5:08:52 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (โ€œIf we were in a real pandemic, thereโ€™d be no need to declare it.โ€)
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To: SunkenCiv

Very cool material. Thanks.


31 posted on 05/03/2021 5:42:37 PM PDT by softengine
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To: SunkenCiv

Did the Helvetii invent that famous font helvetica?


32 posted on 05/03/2021 6:06:01 PM PDT by Pennsyltucky Boy (bitterly clinging to our constitutional rights in PA)
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To: SunkenCiv

I remember watching a YouTube video on a reenactment of people living in the iron age. On the third day half the people got food poisoning from undercooked chicken.


33 posted on 05/03/2021 6:11:38 PM PDT by mware (RETIRED)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

That is fascinating, and so is the website.

The six lost years from Paul’s life might be explained by this
interesting conjecture.


34 posted on 05/03/2021 7:01:31 PM PDT by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Global lake warming? ๐Ÿ˜€


35 posted on 05/03/2021 7:02:33 PM PDT by ConservaTeen (Rush, this young conservative will miss you. I'll miss your talent...)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
"You're thinking of American racing mags..."

It's just that when I was born (1933), and almost to the end of WWII, in the winter we had horses pulling wooden snow plows on sidewalks and local neighborhood streets... As well as a milk man who also had a horse-pulled vehicle...

So the cart in the picture looked familiar...๐Ÿ˜€

36 posted on 05/03/2021 8:01:12 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: SunkenCiv

Back in the 1960s, either LIFE or National Geographic published a large book of early civilizations in Europe.

I remember the painted illustrations of the Swiss lake settlements showed HOT shapely NAKED GIRLS!(WOW)! and how the people lived.

I learned to like ancient history back then.


37 posted on 05/03/2021 8:12:57 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ((Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.))
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To: DannyTN

No kidding. Those Swiss always plan ahead. They didn’t even need a boat to “lose” their assault spears and their high capacity hatchets.


38 posted on 05/03/2021 8:19:03 PM PDT by fini
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To: SunkenCiv

Oh.

So that’s where I put it.

Thanks. I’ve been looking for that for ages.


39 posted on 05/03/2021 9:39:58 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: SunkenCiv
... revealed around 30 prehistoric wooden piles or stilts and five pieces of pottery.

But no cuckoo clocks...........................

40 posted on 05/04/2021 5:32:35 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven.....................)
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