Lucerne is old but…: Switzerland looks even older than Lucerne here

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If the people of Lucerne are now somehow convinced that their city is approximately 5,400 years old, 2,400 years older than previously thought, this will not affect the people of Chur in any way. For still life and couch leather, they can’t be beat anywhere in Switzerland: Hunters and gatherers were already hanging out in this area 13,000 years ago. Evil tongues say this is still noticed today: the Graubinden hunt is sacred to at least 5,000 active hunters, and the reintroduced wolf is sometimes shot illegally if it dares to challenge hunters for its moose.

Today Switzerland is considered a country of innovation. We used to be a little bit provincial. Are there any examples? Do you use fire for cooking? Homo habilis and Homo rudolfensis figured it out before us, in East Africa, about 1.5 million years ago. Wheel? According to available information, B.C. It was invented in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC. Even the famous morning star of Switzerland was not made by us, but by the Flemish around 1000 AD. So what is this now, the oldest, truly Swiss invention? Maybe cellophane, invented by Swiss chemist Jaques E. Brandenberger in 1912. Then the creativity begins: zippers, peelers, Velcro, LSD, even the Internet was invented at Cern in 1989 – but by the Englishman Tim Berners-Lee.

Why do people drive piles into the lake to build houses on it? Were the Swiss pile dwellers not yet familiar with dampness-related pain and tearing of limbs? Maybe it was because giggling was preferable to fighting bears and wolves; you were protected on the lake, trade routes were made by piled canoes, as boats were called in those days, and were probably more convenient than carrying any goods through the dense Swiss beech. forest drag. The oldest documented stake settlements are located on the ancient Wauwilersee, now called Wauwilermoos. They date to around 4400 BC.

Vegans are actually right: Milk is for cows, not humans. At least if you go back a few thousand years. Archaeologists and forensic scientists have identified the first Swiss who was said to be able to tolerate milk during excavations. It is said that he lived in Spreitenbach AG 2400 years ago. It had an evolutionary advantage over others due to its ability to digest milk. The only question that remains is what the lactose intolerant people of the time in Anno Domini used to lighten their morning ale, perhaps roasted acorns and ground between two stones. Maybe with ground limestone? We would rather die.

It was discovered in 1868 during excavations at Robenhausen on the shores of Lake Pfäffikersee in Zurich: the oldest gate in Switzerland. It once hung on the door frame of a hilltop house and, among other things, tells us how small we Swiss were back then: the door is only 1.60 meters high. It can be seen in the Landesmuseum Zurich.

Today, many people are annoyed by the so-called “taggers”, mostly young sprayers, who immortalize their nicknames, “tags”, sometimes with more, sometimes with less skill, by writing on walls, in the back seats of trams, in train carriages and everywhere else. But even thousands of years ago, it was important for the Swiss to put their name forward. This can of course be understood on a tombstone. The oldest known inscription in Switzerland, a funerary stele at Vira Gambarogno TI from the 5th century BC, states the name of the deceased in Celtic characters: Teromui Kalui. But then your own name is also important: for example, in the three oldest known inscriptions from Switzerland: both a bronze helmet from Misox and a vase from Giubiasco (“Rupelos”) have names on them.

Source : Blick