«Rock Crystal and Glaciers – Rays in the Stone Age»

10,000 years ago, in the Middle Stone Age, quartz/rock crystal was an important raw material for tools. In 2013, near the Fuorcla da Strem Sut, UR (Lower Stremlücke), a Uri blaster discovered a Middle Stone Age fissure at 2817 m above sea level, freshly released by the retreating Brunnifirn. Since then, archaeologists have been investigating the world of hunter-gatherers, who were already on the move in the high mountains and in glaciated areas 8,000 to 10,000 years ago, searching for and mining quartz/rock crystal there.

Marcel Cornelissen is an archaeologist and head of the project "Bergeis – Rays and Rock Crystal in the Stone Age" of the Uri Institute "Cultures of the Alps" and the Department of Monument Preservation and Archaeology of the Canton of Uri, which is being carried out in cooperation with the cantons of Graubünden and Valais.

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