Good News Notes: “An amateur archaeologist has uncovered the earliest example of animal carvings in Scotland. The carvings were hiding in plain sight in a Bronze Age burial site. Two red deer (Cervus elaphus) sporting fully grown antlers — as well as three smaller quadrupeds (four-footed animals), two of which are also likely to be deer —…
Tag: Bronze Age
3,000-Year-Old Submerged Settlement Discovered in Switzerland
Good News Notes: “Archaeologists surveying Switzerland’s Lake Lucerne have discovered the remains of a submerged Bronze Age village. As Swissinfo.ch reports, the new finds suggest that the area around the lake was settled 2,000 years earlier than previously thought. Though researchers have long searched for proof of early habitation in the Lucerne region, a thick layer of mud had obscured…