[SunkenCiv]

This is historian Dan Snow inspecting the site.

Credit: Maritime Archaeological Trust

[Grimmy]

Oldest site in the world!..

yet found. They always seem to leave that part off.

[mountainlion]

I have heard of underwater basket weaving but underwater boat building is a new one on me.

[Deaf Smith]

And they know these were not submarine pens how?

s/

[HighSierra5]

Maybe they were trying to develop submarines.

[blueunicorn6]

I don’t know.

As murky as that water is, I think Dan may have discovered some more old English turds.

There must be a Department Of Turdology at Oxford or something.

[Beowulf9]

Yeah. We had a hell of a time building those boats underwater like that. The water didn't rise, we were stupid.

[G Larry]

Wadda ya expect?!

Of course a stone age boat is going to be underwater!

Ya didn't expect 'em to figure it out on their first try, didja?

[Bob434]

[[ Stone Age boat building site has been discovered underwater]]

Of course it has, stone boats didn’t float lol

[21twelve]

Stone Age stuff at the Isle of Wight. Interesting article. Amazing how advanced they were way back when.

Here’s another clip about ancient rock at the Isle of Wight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agPk4—AGhQ

(Emerson, Lake and Palmer playing their first gig ever and the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970). They too were pretty advanced for way back then!

[Swordmaker]

Gives meaning to your FR handle, doesn’t it, SunkenCiv?

Of course, it doesn’t say much about their choice of boat-building locations, though. Perhaps they should have considered converting their business to building prehistoric submarines.

[mabarker1]

Presunken Boats for Sale.

[knarf]

Why would the ancients want to build boats underwater?

I don't understand.

< s >

[csvset]

Right next to the Underwater Basket Weaving School.

[Openurmind]

Uh Oh... This is heresy, this means stone age man were more than hunter gathers and could FLOAT! When are the hard heads going to take down the firewall and start being objective about possibilities. I am surprised they haven’t already discredited this and called it a religious temple instead, just to prevent the concept that stone age man could float. I think the Scandinavians were also floating even before this.

This is a very significant find here.

Sunken Civ found another Sunken Civilization. :)

[zeugma]

Well, if they were building them out of stone, of course they sank.

[wildbill]

underwater construction undoubtedly contributed to the dearth of viable boats from that age that can be found.

[38special]

Yep, sure looks like it in that picture.