[SunkenCiv]

An artist's impression of life at a Lucerne area stilt village [Joe Rohrer/Canton of Lucerne]

[ClearCase_guy]

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.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Global warming raised the sea level and swallowed up the village.

[Larry Lucido]

It would have never occurred to me to build a village under a lake.

[bgill]

Oh, no! The Bronze Age folks caused global warming with their outdoor fires resulting in their villages were flooded.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

What pile drivers were available 3,000 years ago?

[TexasGator]

"Bronze Age village found under in Swiss lake"

[ckilmer]

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.

[Wallace T.]

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.

[SuperLuminal]

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...

[pepsi_junkie]

Bronze Age village found under Swiss lake

Ancient people could breathe under water?

[digger48]

Appears they needed taller stilts

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

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.

[mware]

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.

[ConservaTeen]

Global lake warming? 😀

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

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.

[Red Badger]

... revealed around 30 prehistoric wooden piles or stilts and five pieces of pottery.

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

[Daffynition]

Now we know where the holes in Swiss cheese come from.

https://www.thespruceeats.com/why-does-swiss-cheese-have-holes-591200

[VastRWCon]

Crazy, why would they hide a village under a lake?