ABSTRACT
Prehistoric pile-dwellings are to be found in two Austrian provinces: Upper Austria and Carinthia. In Upper Austria, they are located on the shorelines of three Salzkammergut lakes: Mondsee (Lake Mond), Attersee (Lake Atter) and Traunsee (Lake Traun), and in Carinthia on Keutschacher See (Lake Keutschacher), a small lake south of Wörthersee (Lake Wörther). Settlements with piledwellings were confirmed on all the above-mentioned four lakes around the midnineteenth century. The first and most unusual settlement was discovered on an island in the middle of Keutschacher See in 1864. Dendro-dating confirmed this settlement as the oldest Neolithic pile-dwelling settlement in Austria. The Salzkammergut lakes produced an unusually high quantity of ceramic and metal finds. In particular, the station See on Mondsee was the focus of continual research interest.
