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The Discovery of Lake Dwellings on the Lake of Zurich (1854)

Pacific Lake Dwellings and Their Illustrator, Louis-Antoine de Sainson

How Are Pile-Work Constructions and Life above Water to Be Explained?

Buildings on Stilts

Findings on the Lake of Neuchâtel and the 1867 Exposition Universelle in Paris

The Helvetian Appropriation of New Guinea Villages on Pile-Work above the Water

The Influence of the Paleontologist Cuvier on the Swiss Reconstruction of the Primeval World

The Haptic Joys of Closeness to Life: The Building Model Gains Dominant Significance

The Painters of Lake-Dwelling Romanticism