T he Pre-Roman Era Hunters, gatherers, lake-dwellers, but not yet William Tell!

The earliest of human activity discovered in Switzerland dates back to the Paleolithic Age. Cutting tools which must have belonged to the Neanderthal Man (20'000 until 4000 BC) have been found in the Cotencher Cave in the Canton of Neuchâtel. Many sites from the era of farming people at the Neolithic Age (which lasted until 3000 BC) have been discovered in Switzerland too. During the period of Bronze Age and Early Iron Age tracks were cut through the mountains and trade slowly developed.

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