🏛️ Site archéologique de Hautecombe immergé dans le lac du Bourget à Saint-Pierre-de-Curtille
Submerged Neolithic settlement in Lake Bourget, France
📌 Fast Facts
- Neolithic lakeside settlement dating to approximately 3500 BC
- Located 30 metres below the surface of Lake Bourget, Savoie department
- Part of the Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps UNESCO World Heritage Site (inscribed 2011)
- Protected archaeological site; public diving prohibited without permit
The Site archéologique de Hautecombe is a submerged Neolithic settlement in Lake Bourget near Saint-Pierre-de-Curtille in the French Alps. Dating to around 3500 BC, the site consists of the remains of a lakeside settlement that was inundated when lake levels rose at the end of the last Ice Age. It is one of France's most significant Neolithic archaeological sites and forms part of the 111-site Prehistoric Pile Dwellings serial property across six Alpine countries ...