Discovering 4,000-year-old bows and boxes in Switzerland

The team discovered many widgets from the Bronze Age in the rock slit near the top of the Lotschberg mountain in the Alps, Switzerland.

Scientists discovered traces of the bow and arrow, a wooden food box and many Bronze Age 4,000-year-old items near the top of Mount Lotschberg, the Alps, Switzerland, NDTV on October 15. .

They may belong to hunters or sheltered animal breeders there, Regula Gubler, an archaeologist from the state of Bern, Switzerland. This site was discovered in 2011. Archaeologists from the Bern State Archaeological Authority conducted surveys and obtained a number of items in 2012, but bad weather prevented them from completing excavations.

Many Bronze-era items were found on the top of Mount Lotschberg.(Photo: Swissinfo).

"The snow is heavy in that area, but this year we can finish the job because the summer is very warm, the winter doesn't have much snow. This combination has made the snow lessen , " Gubler explained. .

The latest items the team found consisted of four pieces of shaped wood, probably from two Bronze-era bows, several pieces of wooden names, several pieces of antique leather and a string made of animal hair. with buttons with buffalo or cow horns, Gubler said.

The team also tested the wooden box discovered in 2012 and found inside it contained a wheat flour, barley, rye and smelter, according to Scientific Reports.

Gubler said that the box is used to store dry powder and can be mixed with milk or water before eating. This helps reduce the weight of furniture, Gubler said. Ancient climbers who choose wooden food boxes can also for the same reason."You will not bring a ceramic box up the mountain, so it is too heavy , " she said.

The analysis shows that these objects date from 2,000 to 1,800 years BC, according to Live Science. The area found them to be a stone square about two square meters wide, located next to the glacier near the top of Mount Lotschberg.