guy Posted August 31 Report Share Posted August 31 (edited) LiDAR technology has revealed a Roman campsite at Colm la Runga, a peak in the Graubünden region southwest of Zurich, Switzerland, near the Italian border. Excavations at the site have uncovered artifacts, including an arrowhead. The campsite was further excavated and dated to 20 BCE. When the camp was built, Rome was still fighting to conquer the Swiss Alps. https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article291709010.html http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/70981 https://www.gr.ch/DE/Medien/Mitteilungen/MMStaka/2024/Seiten/2024082903.aspx Edited August 31 by guy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldrail Posted August 31 Report Share Posted August 31 Crikey, that's one exposed site. I can just imagine a centurion gritting his teeth as soldiers moaned about the cold wind. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guy Posted August 31 Author Report Share Posted August 31 (edited) I am surprised that the Romans did not completely subjugate Switzerland until several years after Caesar's death in 44 BCE. Below is a post about a nearby skirmish between the Romans and the local tribe of Raeti in 15 BCE. Edited August 31 by guy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guidoLaMoto Posted September 2 Report Share Posted September 2 Amazing how new tech is making things easier for archeologists. In regards the weather, it was "The Roman Warm Period."...Caesar was quite attentive to including elements of the natural history of his meanderings thru Transalpine Gaul in his Commentaries.... and crossed back and forth to Cisalpine Gaul several times during those years, get never once mentioned snow or ice.....while 200 yrs earlier, Hannibal lost half his men and all but one of his elephants to the cold, snowy conditions as they crossed the Alps.....So much for "Global Warming." Maybe the Romans delayed in subduing the Helvetia area because it was so sparsely inhabited. Thirteen hundred years later, the Knights Templar may have retreated there to avoid persecution for that very reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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