Featured: Current Archaeology Book of the Year 2019!

Current Archaeology Book of the Year 2019!

Random Image


The Govan Stones

See Your Book Here

See Your Book Here

Who's Online

There are currently, 340 guests and 4 members online.

You are a guest. To join in, please register for free by clicking here

Sponsors

<< Text Pages >> Lake Mondsee Prehistoric Village - Ancient Village or Settlement in Austria

Submitted by Andy B on Tuesday, 21 October 2008  Page Views: 5614

Multi-periodSite Name: Lake Mondsee Prehistoric Village
Country: Austria
NOTE: This site is 9.681 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement

Latitude: 47.816667N  Longitude: 13.383333E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
Destroyed Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
1

Internal Links:
External Links:

Ancient Village in Austria. An Alpine Pompeii from the Stone Age. What happened to the prehistoric village on Lake Mondsee in the Austrian Alps? One geologist has found evidence that a vast rock slide may have set off a tsunami that buried the lakeside settlement.

He's hoping to find funding -- and mummies.

The fall of Pompeii began with a small cloud of smoke drifting out of Mt. Vesuvius. Within a few days, though, the affluent Roman city lay coated in a meter-thick shroud of ash. Even more devastating were the effects of a giant meteorite that crashed into the Gulf of Mexico 65 million years ago, bringing an end to the age of the dinosaurs.

Such violent events, putting human beings and animals at the mercy of destructive natural forces, have always stimulated the fantasies of those born afterwards. In some cases, however, the truth has been less dramatic. The notion that the Mayans starved to death because of failed harvests and that the palaces of the Minoans were destroyed by dramatic floods is just as untrue as the claim that murderers smashed a hole into the head of Tutankhamun.

Now scientists are examining a new catastrophic scenario. Could it be that a severe rockslide in the Alps destroyed a prehistoric village? Alexander Binsteiner, a geologist and flint stone expert, has proposed the thesis. He believes that the accident affected lake dwellers living on the eastern tip of Mondsee Lake, near present-day Salzburg. Twenty to 50 wooden huts, coated with mud or cow dung, stood there on stilts along the lakefront. The women wore dresses made of flax, decorated with shells and snails, and the men wore bast fiber ponchos and sandals. It was considered cool to chew on birch tar, the prehistoric version of chewing gum.

Similar lakeside settlements were common in the fourth millennium B.C. These collections of slightly elevated huts on moist ground were scattered around the Alps, from Lake Paladru in France, across the lakes of Switzerland and Austria to Slovenia and Lake Garda in present-day Italy.

The people of the Mondsee Lake settlement were apparently relatively advanced within this cultural group. They had metallurgical skills, which were rare in Europe. They cleverly searched the mountains for copper deposits, melted the crude ore in clay ovens and made refined, shimmering red weapons out of the metal.

Read more, with photos in Der Spiegel
.
You may be viewing yesterday's version of this page. To see the most up to date information please register for a free account.


Do not use the above information on other web sites or publications without permission of the contributor.

Nearby Images from Flickr
09-03-24  Attersee MondseeWolfgangsee 2605.jpg
Mondsee
Mondsee
Mondsee
De Mondsee
De Mondsee bij Sankt Lorenz

The above images may not be of the site on this page, but were taken nearby. They are loaded from Flickr so please click on them for image credits.


Click here to see more info for this site

Nearby sites

Click here to view sites on an interactive map of the area

Key: Red: member's photo, Blue: 3rd party photo, Yellow: other image, Green: no photo - please go there and take one, Grey: site destroyed

Download sites to:
KML (Google Earth)
GPX (GPS waypoints)
CSV (Garmin/Navman)
CSV (Excel)

To unlock full downloads you need to sign up as a Contributory Member. Otherwise downloads are limited to 50 sites.


Turn off the page maps and other distractions

Nearby sites listing. In the following links * = Image available
 11.8km SE 133° Lugberg Rock Art
 14.0km SE 128° Kienbachklamm Rock Art
 34.2km SE 146° Hallstatt Salt Mines* Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
 34.6km SE 145° Museum Hallstatt* Museum
 34.7km SE 145° Hallstatt-Dachstein* Barrow Cemetery
 36.0km WNW 292° Summstein Laufen Modern Stone Circle etc
 41.9km WSW 255° Karlstein Celtic Settlement Ancient Village or Settlement
 44.1km SSW 197° Sinnhubschlössl Ancient Village or Settlement
 48.7km SE 140° Notgasse Petroglyphen Rock Art
 50.6km SSW 195° Arthurstollen Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
 55.4km W 271° Summstein Siegsdorf Modern Stone Circle etc
 61.4km SSW 201° Goldegger Passstelle Ancient Village or Settlement
 64.5km WNW 287° Grabhügelfeld Stein an der Traun Barrow Cemetery
 65.0km NW 305° Margarethenberg Hillfort
 68.4km NW 310° Station des Mesolithikums und vorgeschichtliche Siedlung Kastl Ancient Village or Settlement
 68.7km WNW 284° Viereckschanze Truchtlaching* Misc. Earthwork
 69.1km NW 309° Grabhügel Kastl 2 Round Barrow(s)
 69.2km NW 309° Brandgräber der älteren Urnenfelderzeit Kastl Barrow Cemetery
 69.3km NW 309° Vorgeschichtlicher Siedlungsplatz Kastl Ancient Village or Settlement
 69.5km NW 312° Brandgräber der Urnenfelderzeit Altötting Barrow Cemetery
 69.5km NW 309° Grabhügel Kastl 1 Round Barrow(s)
 69.6km NW 312° Bronzezeitliche Siedlung Altötting Ancient Village or Settlement
 71.2km NW 310° Brandgräber der Bronzezeit Unterburgkirchen Barrow Cemetery
 71.2km NW 311° Siedlung der Römischen Kaiserzeit Ancient Village or Settlement
 71.4km ESE 105° In der Höll petroglyphs Rock Art
View more nearby sites and additional images

<< Berry Down menhir

Baishevskie Barrows >>

Please add your thoughts on this site

Caithness Archaeology: Aspects of Prehistory

Caithness Archaeology: Aspects of Prehistory

Sponsors

Auto-Translation (Google)

Translate from English into:

"Lake Mondsee Prehistoric Village" | Login/Create an Account | 1 comment
  
Go back to top of page    Comments are owned by the poster. We aren't responsible for their content.
Re: Lake Mondsee Prehistoric Village by Anonymous on Sunday, 26 October 2008
I understood that copper was too soft for weapons. Surely what was made was for ceremonial use?
[ Reply to This ]

Your Name: Anonymous [ Register Now ]
Subject:


Add your comment or contribution to this page. Spam or offensive posts are deleted immediately, don't even bother

<<< What is five plus one as a number? (Please type the answer to this question in the little box on the left)
You can also embed videos and other things. For Youtube please copy and paste the 'embed code'.
For Google Street View please include Street View in the text.
Create a web link like this: <a href="https://www.megalithic.co.uk">This is a link</a>  

Allowed HTML is:
<p> <b> <i> <a> <img> <em> <br> <strong> <blockquote> <tt> <li> <ol> <ul> <object> <param> <embed> <iframe>

We would like to know more about this location. Please feel free to add a brief description and any relevant information in your own language.
Wir möchten mehr über diese Stätte erfahren. Bitte zögern Sie nicht, eine kurze Beschreibung und relevante Informationen in Deutsch hinzuzufügen.
Nous aimerions en savoir encore un peu sur les lieux. S'il vous plaît n'hesitez pas à ajouter une courte description et tous les renseignements pertinents dans votre propre langue.
Quisieramos informarnos un poco más de las lugares. No dude en añadir una breve descripción y otros datos relevantes en su propio idioma.