Studies related to prehistoric, Circum-Alpine lakeside settlements have for the last decade or so begun to focus increasingly on the reconstruction of its inhabitant’s social dimensions of life. More traditional models attempting to explain the often-fleeting settlement patterns set in a tightly managed cultural landscape focusing on climate and economic factors alone have proven insufficient and opened up to more nuanced and multi-scalar approaches. Especially built structures, due to their exceptional preservation, constitute a popular jumping-off point for a number of theories and interpretations but recent work has also moved beyond the confines of the settlement to include the wider cultural landscape as crucial in understanding the lakeside phenomenon. This article re-evaluates one of the more popular architecture-based models, namely the non-correspondence model, and subsequently suggests an alternative, more integrative approach based on Amos Rapoport’s understanding of space. The aim is to create a more flexible approach to questions of space, time and meaning that does not stop at the built environment. Input from both the natural and the social sciences is combined in an attempt to sketch out an approximation of life on the lakeshores more than 5000 years ago.

在过去十年左右的时间里，与史前环阿尔卑斯湖畔定居点相关的研究开始越来越多地关注重建其居民的社会生活维度。试图解释仅关注气候和经济因素的严格管理的文化景观中经常转瞬即逝的定居模式的更传统模型已被证明是不够的，并为更细致和多尺度的方法开辟了道路。特别是建筑结构，由于其特殊的保护，构成了许多理论和解释的流行起点，但最近的工作也已经超越了定居点的范围，将更广泛的文化景观纳入了解湖滨现象的关键。本文重新评估了一种更流行的基于架构的模型，即非对应模型，随后提出了一种基于 Amos Rapoport 对空间的理解的替代性、更综合性的方法。其目的是创造一种更灵活的方法来解决空间、时间和意义的问题，而不仅仅局限于建筑环境。将自然科学和社会科学的投入结合起来，试图勾勒出 5000 多年前湖岸生命的近似图。