Prehistoric pile dwellings in the region of the Alps is a series of obsolete pile-home (or stilt dwelling) settlements in and in relation to the Alps built from around 5000 to 500 B.C. in this area the edges of lakes, rivers or wetlands. 111 sites, located in Austria (5 sites), France (11), Germany (18), Italy (19), Slovenia (2), and Switzerland (56), were added to UNESCO World Heritage Site list in 2011.In Slovenia, this is the first cultural world descent site.
Excavations, without help conducted in some of the sites, have yielded evidence that provides perspicacity into simulation in antique era during the Neolithic and Bronze Age in Alpine Europe and the habit communities interacted considering their atmosphere. As the nomination avowed, the settlements are a unique bureau of exceptionally proficiently-preserved and culturally nimbly-to-attain archaeological sites, which constitute one of the most important sources for the study of before agrarian societies in the region.
Contrary to popular belief, the houses were not erected on peak of water, but on light marshy house. They were set coarsely piles to protect neighboring-door-door to occasional flooding. Because the lakes have grown in size on intensity of become outdated, many of the indigenous piles are now under water, giving advanced observers the two-timing heavens that they always had been.
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