Site

Chalain

Description

On the peninsula of Chalain 20, dozens of oak posts were found starting in 1904. But it was only after systematic auguring in 1995 that archaeologists realized that this was not just a question of eroded villages, but one of the most remarkable habitation sites of the entire lake.
Preserved under three or four meters of lake marl, archaeologists found a veritable man-made island. Made from layers of wood and plant accumulation, it was built in shallow water around the 27th-26th centuries BCE. Designed to accommodate a small village of wooden houses, this artificial island about 50 meters in diameter was created purposefully and built collectively. This was probably not a standard cultivators' village, but rather the central seat of an inegalitarian, hierarchical power.

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http://palafittes.dankarcheo.fr/fr/societe-inegalitaire

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Map of the archaeological sites of Chalain and Clairvaux