Neolithic

Thanks to the support of the Skoda Auto Trade Union, the youth group Altamira started building an archaeological open air museum. Their motto is “find out who you are in a struggle with nature”. The Youth Association itself was founded in 1985.

The ideas of how lake dwellings were like have shifted dramatically during the last century. In the Jura area in France, two lakes near each other were found out to reveal a large quantity of relatively undisturbed material on those dwellings. A fight begun between the archaeologists and those who wanted to make nice tourist beaches out of these lakes.

Already for a long period of time, the Naturhistorische Gesellschaft Nürnberg e.V. (NHG), has been active in the region of the municipality Roth with many excavations showing the continuous habitation of the region since Neolithic times.

Khirokitia (or Choirokoitia, Greek:Χοιροκοιτία) was first excavated in 1934-1946. By the end of the 1970s, French excavations started. The site itself is UNESCO World Heritage since 1998.

With a preparation time between 1988 and 2001, the municipality of Villeneuve d’Asq aimed for an important and attractive open air museum. Here, based on general information instead of specific sites, prehistoric and medieval houses are presented as well as the people constructing them and living there.

Overlooking the Barranco de Fataga, the biggest and most dramatic gorge on the island, you will find Mundo Aborigen fun and theme park, Parque Rural de Ayagaures.

As early as 1840, Neolithic grave mounds or tumuli were excavated near Bougon leading to what at present is a museum about life and death in the Neolithic Age and beyond. The museum is built around the remains of an old monastery but has a modern look and interior.

The 50th anniversary of „Lions Club Willisau“ in the municipality of Wauwil, near Luzern needed to be marked with a landmark celebration and an interesting and useful project. The village Wauwil counts about 1600 inhabitants. In 2002, at the Wauwiler moor, a bird watch tower was built thanks to a large investment of time and money of the Lions Club.

The Laténium park & museum (“Parc et musée d’archéologie de Neuchâtel“) houses one of the most important archaeological collections of Switzerland and is named after the famous Iron Age era (6th – 5th century BC). It is the official cantonal archaeological museum and also houses the Neuchâtel cantonal archaeological department.

The Lake Dwelling Village of Gletterens is romantically situated at the banks of Lake Neuchâtel. Although its main use is as education site for school groups, tourists visit the reconstruction of a Neolithic lake dwelling site as well.