Pfahlbausiedlung von Moniga del Garda, Bronze Age archaeological site in Moniga del Garda, Italy
The Pfahlbausiedlung von Moniga del Garda is a Bronze Age pile-dwelling site on the western shore of Lake Garda, near the town's modern harbor. Excavations have uncovered flint tools, arrowheads, pottery fragments, and bronze objects from wooden posts buried beneath the sediment.
The settlement was established around 2200 BCE, when the lake's water level was much lower than it is today. As centuries passed, rising waters covered the wooden posts, which were then preserved in the lake bed sediment.
The objects recovered from the site show a community that farmed grain and kept animals along the lake shore. A visit to the Giovanni Rambotti Civic Museum in Desenzano del Garda brings these daily routines closer through the tools and pottery on display.
The remains lie beneath the water and modern construction around the harbor, so there is nothing to see on the ground at the site itself. To view the recovered objects and learn about the finds, a visit to the Giovanni Rambotti Civic Museum in Desenzano del Garda is the best option.
In the 1980s, hundreds of objects were seized from a private collector who had been diving and removing them without permission. That case drew attention to the need to protect submerged sites from unauthorized removal of finds.
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