CH-TG-04

Short description
As early as in 1862,in the course of peat extractions at the dried-up Lake Egelsee, the remains of a Neolithic settlement were found. The following excavations produced the outlines of houses with well-preserved wooden floors. In 1962 and 1963 a team sent by the University of Groningen uncovered approximately a third of the known settlement. It contains about 30 houses in six rows, with small aisles between them. The chronology of the wooden floors and the layers of the hearths reveal that the buildings had been renewed various times between 3660 and 3585 BC.