🏛️ Site archéologique du Gojat immergé dans le lac d'Aiguebelette à Novalaise
Submerged Neolithic settlement in the French Alps
📋 Fast Facts
- Underwater Neolithic settlement dating to approximately 5000 BC
- Located in Lake Aiguebelette, Savoie department, France
- Protected archaeological site; diving prohibited without permit
- Artifacts and exhibition viewable at Musée lacustre de Haute-Savoie in Talloires
The Site archéologique du Gojat is an underwater archaeological site located in Lake Aiguebelette near Novalaise in the Savoie department of the French Alps. The remains represent a Neolithic lakeside settlement that was submerged when lake levels rose at the end of the last Ice Age, approximately 5,000 years ago. The site ranks among France's most significant Neolithic discoveries and provides rare evidence of Alpine settlement patterns from this early period ...