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Descending to Wildhorn (March 2007).
Early Bronze Age pins, the one found at Schnidejoch in the middle.

The Schnidejoch is a mountain pass in the Bernese Alps, at 2,756 m (9,042 ft) above sea level, cutting across the ridge connecting the Schnidehorn and the Wildhorn.

Archaeological artifacts, their dates spread over six millennia (from the Neolithic to the Late Middle Ages), have been discovered near the pass. They suggest that the pass was in regular use as a short route across the Bernese Alps, connecting the Bernese Oberland and the Valais, throughout this period. The nearest easier passes across the massif are the Sanetschpass (2,252 m (7,388 ft)) and the Rawilpass (2,429 m (7,969 ft)), situated a short distance to the west and east, respectively.

In September 2003, Bronze Age or Neolithic artifacts were discovered at the icefield just below the pass, at ca. 2,500 m (8,200 ft). The discovery was made possible by the melting away of the formerly permanent ice field during the exceptionally hot summer of 2003.

Further searches in 2004 and 2005 yielded more than 400 objects dating to various epochs, about half of them placed by carbon dating to between 29th and the 27th centuries BC (Corded ware period). The objects include hunting weapons and clothing. A yew bow found at the site and taken home by a German tourist in 2003 was returned to the Bernese cantonal archaeologists in 2005.[1]

The 3rd millennium dates of the oldest artifacts were revised to the mid 5th millennium BC (linear pottery period) in a 2008 press release.[2] The revised dates would establish the artifacts as older than Ötzi the Iceman.

References

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  1. ^ [1] NZZ, Associated Press, 18 January 2006.
  2. ^ [2] NZZ, Schweizerische Depeschenagentur 21 August 2008
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  • http://www.be.ch/web/index/kanton/kanton-mediencenter/kanton-mediencenter-mm/kanton-mediencenter-mm-detail.htm?id=6706[dead link]
  • Foulkes, Imogen (2008-08-24). "Alpine melt reveals ancient life". BBC News Online. Retrieved 2011-06-06.

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Ötzi

goat leather. A similar set of 5,000-year-old leggings discovered in Schnidejoch, Switzerland, were made from goat leather as well. Irish and Italian

Roman Warm Period

earlier and later centuries. Artifacts recovered from the retreating Schnidejoch glacier have been taken as evidence for the Bronze Age, Roman, and Medieval

High Alps

Zwischbergen Pass at 3,268 m, and others. Of historical interest is the Schnidejoch at 2,756 m which appears to have served as a pass since prehistoric times

Schnidehorn

Wildhorn to the southwest, via the Schnidejoch. Retrieved from the Swisstopo topographic maps. The key col is the Schnidejoch (2,756 m). Schnidehorn on Hikr

History of Valais

Fibulae discovered, from left to right, in Saillon (c. 1600 BC), at the Col du Schnidejoch (c. 2000 BC) and in Bex (1600 BC).

Neolithic in Switzerland

Annuaire d'archéologie suisse, 94, 2011, pp. 21-59. Hafner, Albert: Schnidejoch et Lötschenpass. Investigations archéologiques dans les Alpes bernoises

Early history of Switzerland

Horgen. Artifacts dated to the 5th millennium BC were discovered at the Schnidejoch in 2003 to 2005. The pre-Indo-European population of the Alpine region