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UNESCO Sites: Prehistoric Pile Dwellings

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UNESCO Site Storen Wildsberg

A large settlement with evidence of Pfyn, late Horgen and Corded Ceramic cultures. The dig site contained imported flint and copper finds.
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Luftbild von der Fundstelle Feldbach-Ost

UNESCO Site Feldbach

This site was discovered in 1864, spanning the entire bay between Feldbach and Kempraten. Here we have unearthed four Neolithic phases of Cortaillod, Pfyn, Horgen as well as...
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Backschaufel aus der Fundstelle Olzreute Enzisholz © Landesamt für Denkmalpflege | © Landesamt für Denkmalpflege

UNESCO Site Olzreute Enzisholz

The Olzreute Enzisholz site is a typical example of a smaller Upper Swabian silting moor settlement. The settlement layers are an exceptionally well preserved example of the...
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UNESCO Site Enge Alpenquai

This exclusively Late Bronze Age settlement has a large variety of organic materials. Several settlement phases occupied this site until the end of the pile dweller period.
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Wabenfoermige Einbauten schuetzen die Fundstelle vor Erosion © Landesamt für Denkmalpflege | © Landesamt für Denkmalpflege

UNESCO Site Litzelstetten Krähenhorn

The station Litzelstetten-Krähenhorn represents a special settlement situation on the north bank of the peninsula Bodanrück.
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UNESCO Site Rorenhaab

This site marks the beginnings of pile-dwelling research in the canton of Zurich. The settlement was inhabited by the Cortaillod culture to the Late Bronze Age.
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UNESCO Site Technikum

The Obersee site was recently discovered in 1998 followed by archeologic investigations in 1999, 2006 and 2011. The 100 meter settlement is located on a shoal, surrounded by...
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UNESCO Fundstelle Grundwiesen © Landesamt für Denkmalpflege | © Landesamt für Denkmalpflege

UNESCO Site Grundwiesen

The site is located about 250 m south of Alleshausen on the western edge of the Federseeried (Nature Reserve). In 1989 the station was discovered; 1990-1992 the station was...
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UNESCO Fundstelle Wangen-Hinterhorn © Landesamt für Denkmalpflege | © Landesamt für Denkmalpflege

UNESCO Site Wangen-Hinterhorn

The UNESCO Site Wangen-Hinterhorn was discovered in 1856 by Kaspar Löhle, councilor and small farmer from Wangen, as the first prehistoric lakeside settlement in the shallow...
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