Dugout canoe from Lac de Chalain
The dugout canoe from Lac de Chalain ( French La pirogue de Chalain ) was discovered in 1904 in La Motte-aux-Magnins near Clairvaux-les-Lacs in the Jura department in France after a sharp drop in the water level of Lac de Chalain . He was transported to the Lons-le-Saunier museum .
The dugout canoe, long ascribed to the Neolithic , was the subject of a comprehensive study in 1984, like most of the remains discovered at the lake. The dendrochronology dates it to 959 BC. In the late bronze age . A typological study by Béat Arnold, a specialist in prehistoric and protohistoric monohulls, also attributes it to this period. The 9.35 m long dugout canoe was cut from an oak trunk.
A rod loop was also found nearby .
See also
literature
- Béat Arnold: Pirogues monoxyles d'Europe centrale, construction, typologie, évolution. In: Archéologie neuchâteloise , 20/21 (1995).
- Pierre Pétrequin: Les lacs de Chalain et de Clairvaux: dynamique évolutive des styles céramiques et transferts de population. Parures et flèches du Néolithique final à Chalain et à Clairvaux (Jura): une approche culturelle et environnementale. In: Gallia Préhistoire 40 1998 pp. 133-140
Individual evidence
- ↑ The 232 hectare glacial lake with an average depth of 16 m is the largest natural lake in the Jura.
- ↑ P. u. AT THE. Petrequin, R.-M. Arbogast, A. Viellet, D. Maréchal: A neolithic rod loop from the end of the 31st century BC Chr. In Chalain (Fontenu, Jura, France) In: Hemmenhofer Skripte 3 - loop, sledge, wheel and carriage; On the question of early means of transport north of the Alps. 2002 pp. 55-65 ISSN 1437-8620
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