Section of a Stone Age megastructure in the Bay of Mecklenburg, Germany.CREDIT: Philipp Hoy.
Posted on 02/13/2024 1:51:21 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research in Warnemünde report the discovery of an ancient, 10,000-year-old massive stone wall that has remained submerged beneath the Baltic Sea for millennia.
At nearly a kilometer in length, the Stone Age megastructure hidden beneath the waters of the Bay of Mecklenburg in Germany is not only one of the oldest man-made hunting structures in Europe but likely one of the oldest pieces of construction in the entire world.
"It was likely constructed by hunter–gatherer groups more than 10000 y ago and ultimately drowned during the Littorina transgression at 8500 y B.P.," the researchers explain in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "Since then, it remained hidden at the seafloor, leading to a pristine preservation that will inspire research on the lifestyle and territorial development in the larger area."...
"The Baltic Sea basins, some of which only submerged in the mid-Holocene, preserve Stone Age structures that did not survive on land," they explain. "Yet, the discovery of these features is challenging and requires cross-disciplinary approaches between archeology and marine geosciences."...
As far as who actually built the massive stone wall, the team says that the location and construction methods unearthed during their aquatic studies indicate it was likely built by hunter-gatherer groups who "roamed the region" after the retreat of the Weichselian Ice Sheet over 10,000 years ago.
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Section of a Stone Age megastructure in the Bay of Mecklenburg, Germany.CREDIT: Philipp Hoy.
Thanks for the link.
Massive stone wall built by hunter gatherers? That seems odd,
More like herder-gatherers. :^)
um, it’s a pile of rocks.
more likely ballast that sank with a ship.
Damn, the CO2 from those mid-Holocene SUVs really melted the ice and rose the sea level!
I hope they find a mid-Holocene SUV parked in that stone garage.
To All:
Read this book:
Underworld
- by Graham Hancock
Massive evidence of days when the seas were lower...(i.e. global warming gave us the ‘Earth’ we have now’
Atlantis has been found!
And they want us to believe that these people didn’t get to Newfoundland first.
the Littorina transgression
Would make a great name for a Robert Ludlum novel.
Dang it! That was a really good hiding spot too.
Now that they found the wall, how long before they find the basement stash?
Yes odd but that the self-made paradigm they are stuck with. No one in today’s archaeology is allowed to have advanced further than hunter-gather at that time. They have the same problem with the far older structures at Gobekli-Tepi.
...They stone you when you’re tryin’ to go home...
:^) Agreed!
https://search.brave.com/search?q=Littorina+transgression
https://search.brave.com/search?q=Weichselian+Ice+Sheet
That is awesome. Rivals Gobekli Tepi.
I don’t see any evidence of a wall here. That is a pile of irregularly shaped stones. Retreating glaciers drop stones in their path.
Odd? Yup, why would a hunter even put two rocks together? There went my BS flag on this story as it is so far?
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