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A piece of leather dated from Neolithic found at the 2,756 metre-high Schnidejoch alpine pass, western Swiss Alps. So far, 300 objects dating as far back as the Neolithic or New Stone Age -- about 4,000 BC in Europe -- to the later Bronze and Iron Ages and the Medieval era have been found in the site's former icefields. [Agencies]

A piece of leather dated from Neolithic found at the 2,756 metre-high Schnidejoch alpine pass, western Swiss Alps. So far, 300 objects dating as far back as the Neolithic or New Stone Age -- about 4,000 BC in Europe -- to the later Bronze and Iron Ages and the Medieval era have been found in the site's former icefields. [Agencies]



(China Daily September 8, 2008)

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