Prehistoric alpine farming in the Bernese Oberland
Sunday, April 9, 2017 - 21:31
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The people in Switzerland were on the move in the High Alps and running alpine pastures 7,000 years ago and therefore much earlier than previously assumed. A study that combines archaeological knowledge with findings from palaeoecology comes to this conclusion. Prehistoric finds from the Schnidejoch Pass played a crucial part in this.