Photo Gallery A Tsunami in the Alps
In prehistoric times, the Alps were dotted with wetland villages on stilts. One such settlement on Lake Mondsee in Austria may have been destroyed by a landslide and tsunami, says one geologist.
Villages on stilts used to be spread out all over the fringes of the Alps in prehistoric times.
Foto: NASA / DER SPIEGEL
Experimental archaeologists like Matthias Krauss try to recreate what life might have been like in the dozens of stilt villages that dotted Alpine wetlands in prehistoric times.
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Lake Constance is home to a stilt village museum, depicting what such a prehistoric village might have looked like.
Foto: DDP
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