4,000 years of tupperware in the Alps
- Five years ago a wooden boat was found in the Swiss Alps, near the high of Lötschenpass, at 2,650 meters altitude, with a total height of 80 meters. Once the object has been examined, the results have been published in the journal Scientific Reports.
The boat is 4,000 years old, so it is from the beginning of the Bronze Age. This doesn't mean that men lived in those high mountains, but they traversed them to go back and forth and brought food to feed themselves during the trip. But the most interesting fact is the wheat remains that have been found inside. In the fields of the Bronze Age, common remnants of cereals have been found, but not inside the packaging. A 20-centimeter nozzle can be key to understanding the beginnings of agriculture in Eurasia.
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