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About 10,000 years ago, the Alpine glaciers advanced northward over the Bavarian plateau toward the site of present-day Munich. These solid rivers of ice - some as thick as 6,000 feet in depth - carved out the relief of the Alpine valleys as we know them today. The lakes of the Bavarian plateau, including those of the Salzkammergut region, were also created by the receding glaciers during this time.
During the New Stone Age, the indigenous hunters encountered farming peoples from the more advanced southwest Asia, who were migrating up the Danube Valley into central Germany about 4,500 BC. These populations mixed and settled in villages to raise crops and breed livestock. The people of this Danubian culture lived with their animals in large, gabled wooden houses, made pottery, and traded with Mediterranean peoples for fine stone and flint axes and shells. As their hand-hoed fields wore out, they moved on, often returning years later. The Late Stone Age also saw the beginning of pile-dwellings on several lakes. These waterfront structures are believed to be early trading-posts.
The first two villages of the farmers of the Danube valley were VINDOBON (later Vienna) and AK INK (later Budapest). The residents of these villages were Asiatic: the ancestors of the modern-day Austrians as yet lived in the Caucasus region with all the ancestors of the Indo-Europeans, while the ancestors of the modern-day Hungarians (Magyars) had already taken up residence in central Asia, whence they would sweep as the Hun invasion. Nevertheless, these two small villages would form the foundation of the magnificent AUSTRIAN civilization to come.
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Curumbor Elendil http://pantheon.yale.edu/~jps35/
ICQ 56126989
<font size=1 face=Arial color=444444>[This message has been edited by Curumbor Elendil (edited January 22, 2001).]</font>
About 10,000 years ago, the Alpine glaciers advanced northward over the Bavarian plateau toward the site of present-day Munich. These solid rivers of ice - some as thick as 6,000 feet in depth - carved out the relief of the Alpine valleys as we know them today. The lakes of the Bavarian plateau, including those of the Salzkammergut region, were also created by the receding glaciers during this time.
During the New Stone Age, the indigenous hunters encountered farming peoples from the more advanced southwest Asia, who were migrating up the Danube Valley into central Germany about 4,500 BC. These populations mixed and settled in villages to raise crops and breed livestock. The people of this Danubian culture lived with their animals in large, gabled wooden houses, made pottery, and traded with Mediterranean peoples for fine stone and flint axes and shells. As their hand-hoed fields wore out, they moved on, often returning years later. The Late Stone Age also saw the beginning of pile-dwellings on several lakes. These waterfront structures are believed to be early trading-posts.
The first two villages of the farmers of the Danube valley were VINDOBON (later Vienna) and AK INK (later Budapest). The residents of these villages were Asiatic: the ancestors of the modern-day Austrians as yet lived in the Caucasus region with all the ancestors of the Indo-Europeans, while the ancestors of the modern-day Hungarians (Magyars) had already taken up residence in central Asia, whence they would sweep as the Hun invasion. Nevertheless, these two small villages would form the foundation of the magnificent AUSTRIAN civilization to come.
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Curumbor Elendil http://pantheon.yale.edu/~jps35/
ICQ 56126989
<font size=1 face=Arial color=444444>[This message has been edited by Curumbor Elendil (edited January 22, 2001).]</font>
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