Dating back 8,000 years, the homes built on stilts could be the oldest lakeside settlement ever found in Europe.
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00:00 It could be the oldest lakeside village in Europe and it's been found beneath the blue
00:06 waters of Albania's Lake Orid, known as the Pern of the Balkans.
00:12 Archaeologists diving into the lake have discovered the remains of a settlement built on stilts,
00:16 a community that dates back 8,000 years.
00:20 Radiocarbon tests date it to between 6,000 and 5,800 BC.
00:25 "It's a more complex, more sophisticated, more advanced development, which should explain
00:32 why people chose this type of architecture."
00:39 One hypothesis is that the people who built the settlement wanted to protect themselves.
00:43 During one of the many dives, archaeologists found evidence suggesting thousands of wooden
00:47 spikes were used as defensive barricades.
00:50 It could take archaeologists decades of study to find out just what filled those Neolithic
00:54 home builders with such fear and dread.
00:57 [Whoosh]