Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14053

    Prehistoric lake dwelling

    Date
    1894
    Creator
    Unknown, Lithographer
    After
    Victor Gross (1845 - 1920, German) , Palaeontologist
    Object type
    Library reference
    RCN60260
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 175mm
    width (print): 251mm
    Description
    Reconstruction of a landscape in Switzerland, showing an Alpine lake pile-dwelling with occupants.

    Such homes were built in the period c.5000 to 500 B.C., from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age.

    Plate 4 from Der mensch, by Johannes Ranke, volume 2 (Leipzig, Bibliographisches Institut, 1894). The plate is titled below: ‘EIN PFAHLBAU DER WESTSCHWEIZ. (Nach V. Gross)’. [A pile-dwelling of western Switzerland (after V, Gross)].

    Johannes Ranke (1836-1916) German physiologist and anthropologist.
    Associated place
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