Pile dwellings are houses raised over the surface of the soil or a body of water. Today, they are common in parts of Indonesia and West Africa. In the Neolithic and Bronze Age, pile dwellings were constructed in the circum-Alpine area, with remains being found e.g. at the Mondsee and Attersee lakes in Upper Austria. Early archaeologists like Ferdinand Keller thought they formed artificial islands, much like the Scottish Crannogs, but today it is clear that the majority of settlements was located on the shores of lakes and were only inundated later on.
Reconstructed pile dwellings are shown in open air museums in Unteruhldingen and Zürich (Pfahlbauland).
Stilt houses or piledwellings are houses raised on stilts over the surface of the soil or a body of water.
In the Neolithic and Bronze Age, piledwellings were common in the Alpine region.
A lake dwelling is a house or other structure built over shallow waters, such as a lake or marsh, supported on piles or artificial mounds of earth or wood.
It also is applied to a large and lofty building, and specifically, to a stand of arms, " piled " in military fashion, and to the series of plates, galvanic" or " voltaic piles," in an electric battery.
The modern " head and tail " of a coin was formerly " cross and pile," Fr.
The common name of the disease of haemorrhoids (q.v.) or " piles " is probably an extension of this word, in the sense of mass, swelling, but may be referred to the Lat.
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