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8,000-year-old Lini, Swiss Radio and Television: This discovery is the largest archaeological project in Europe

2023-08-08 13:37:56Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
8,000-year-old Lini, Swiss Radio and Television: This discovery is the largest
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Swiss Radio and Television (Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen ) SRF, has devoted a report to the latest discoveries of archaeologists in Lin of Pogradec, which is almost 8,000 years old.

The archaeological expedition of the Albanian-Swiss staff, led by archaeologists Adrian Anastasi and Albert Hafner, has started since 2021 and is taking place in three countries: Albania, North Macedonia and Greece, but for now the focus is on the site of Lin, where the results come from the first, which will be completed with the completion of this year's excavations.

SRF writes that the oldest lakeside settlement was found during excavations at Lake Ohrid in Albania.

"The first scientific evidence is now available that Lini was built between 5800 and 5900 BC. This makes it about 2,000 years older than the oldest known settlements in Switzerland," the report states, among other things.

According to the researchers, "this is the biggest archaeological project in Europe".

According to the report drawn up by Anastasi and Hafner, organic woody materials discovered in underwater or sediment-covered sites in Lake Ohrid or on the shore of the lake testify to an early settlement of farmers, dating back to around 5900 – 5800 BC.

"Here are the beginnings of agriculture and animal husbandry and therefore the "greatest cultural change in Europe", says Albert Hafner, professor of Prehistoric Archeology at the University of Bern.

He emphasizes that "this country is important not only for this region, but for the whole of Southeast Europe".

"At the beginning of the 1970s, the water level in Lake Ohrid dropped significantly and this made this underwater place visible," says Adrian Anastasi from the Albanian Institute of Archeology in Tirana.

Underwater excavations are challenging. "Here we are dealing with a lot of coastal vegetation. You have to fight your way through the dense reed beds to get to the dive site," says archaeologist and researcher Marie-Claire Ries, who coordinates dive operations at the site.

According to specialists, the coastal palafite settlements in Lin are the oldest in Europe and this source of information is considered one of the most important of its kind in the world.

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