Qualla: La Draga https://qualla.com/la-draga en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:03 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: La Draga https://qualla.com/la-draga La Draga: Introduction https://qualla.com/la-draga/ Wood rots. Rope frays. Seeds crumble to dust. At La Draga, on the shore of a Catalan lake, none of that happened. For more than seven thousand years, the waterlogged mud of Banyoles held its breath around an entire Neolithic village, and when archaeologists reached it, they found the things that time almost always erases: bows still whole, baskets still woven, hundreds of thousands of seeds. It is the only prehistoric lakeside settlement known on the Iberian Peninsula, and it has become one of the richest windows anywhere into how Europe's first farmers actually lived.

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/3/z/la-draga-wp/sp3z-la-draga-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full La Draga: What the Water Kept https://qualla.com/la-draga/ La Draga was discovered in 1990 on the eastern shore of the Lake of Banyoles, a karstic lake sitting at 170 meters above sea level. In the last quarter of the 6th millennium BCE, this spot was a gentle peninsula sloping into the water, and a farming community built its homes here...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/3/z/la-draga-wp/sp3z-la-draga-what-the-water-kept.mp3 0:06 2 full La Draga: The Oldest Bows in Europe https://qualla.com/la-draga/ Among the wooden objects pulled from the mud were bows, believed to be the oldest Neolithic bows found anywhere in Europe. They were made of yew, the same dense, springy wood prized for archery for millennia afterward, while the arrow shafts were cut from willow. The villagers we...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/3/z/la-draga-wp/sp3z-la-draga-the-oldest-bows-in-europe.mp3 0:06 3 full La Draga: A Village of Wood and Rope https://qualla.com/la-draga/ The houses can be reconstructed from the postholes and timbers left behind. They were quadrangular rather than round, some built from elements up to 5 meters long and 3 meters high, and they were held together less by joinery than by lashing, with ropes and ties doing the structu...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/3/z/la-draga-wp/sp3z-la-draga-four-hundred-thousand-seeds.mp3 0:06 5 full La Draga: The Loom and the Larder https://qualla.com/la-draga/ The finds reach into crafts rarely preserved from so deep in prehistory. Ropes, cords, and baskets survived, woven from plant fibers such as clematis, rushes, and hemp, alongside combs, needles, and spindles used to spin and weave, hinting at textiles made from nettle fiber and f...

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