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Ljubljana Marshes Pile Dwellings

Prehistoric marsh-edge settlements south of Ljubljana, Slovenia, where farming communities built wooden houses on stilts over the wetland - part of the transnational UNESCO 'Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps' listing, and the findspot in 2002 of the oldest wooden wheel with axle yet discovered anywhere in the world.

Dated events and their evidence

• 3,200 BCE mainstream
  the Ljubljana Marshes Wheel is made, the oldest known wooden wheel with axle source
• 2011 CE mainstream
  inscribed as part of the UNESCO 'Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps' site source

Where

45.9667° N, 14.5000° E

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ljubljana_Marshes_Wheel
• https://www.slovenia.info/en/press-centre/news-of-the-tourism-press-agency/5912-pile-dwelling-heritage-of-ljubljana-marshes

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