Breaking with tradition Cultural influences for the decline of the Circum-Alpine region lake-dwellings

• Main Author: Jennings, Benjamin (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Leiden Sidestone Press 2014
• Subjects: Prehistoric archaeology; archaeology; prehistory; lake dwellings; alpine prehistory; neolithic; bronze age; iron age; climate studies; settlement archaeology
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Over 150 years of research in the Circum-Alpine region have produced a vast amount of data on the lakeshore and wetland settlements found throughout the area. Particularly in the northern region, dendrochronological studies have provided highly accurate sequences of occupation, which have correlated...