Megalithic "Blinkerwall" Found in the Baltic Sea

Archaeology Magazine ^ | February 13, 2024 | editors / unattributed

[SunkenCiv]

The Guardian reports that a section of wall stretching for nearly one-half mile was found in the Bay of Mecklenburg, off the coast of Germany, during a survey conducted with a multibeam sonar system. Inspection of the wall revealed that it was made up of about 300 boulders connected with some 1,400 smaller stones. The structure is thought to have been constructed more than 10,000 years ago, near a lake or marsh. Jacob Geersen of the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde suggests that the wall may have been part of a driving lane used by hunters in pursuit of reindeer before the area was inundated with almost 70 feet of water some 8,500 years ago. "When you chase the animals, they follow these structures, they don’t attempt to jump over them," he said. "The idea would be to create an artificial bottleneck with a second wall or with the lake shore," he explained. The rest of the structure, which has been dubbed the "Blinkerwall," may be buried in sediments. Geersen and his colleagues plan to search the area for animal bones and projectiles as well. Read the original scholarly article about this research in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Baltic Hunting Structure Reconstruction

Michał Grabowski

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• A submerged Stone Age hunting architecture from the Western Baltic Sea | Jacob Geersen, Marcel Bradtmöller, Jens Schneider von Deimling, and Harald Lübke | PNAS
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[SunkenCiv]

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[Larry Lucido]

[in pursuit of reindeer before the area was inundated]

They found a business card for a Rudolph the Red. It said “Rudolph the Red knows reindeer!”

[SunkenCiv]

[lee martell]

Knowing how many of today’s weathermen are Drama Queens,
“Megalithic Blinkerwall” sounds like the description of a thunderstorm as seen at night.

[mass55th]

"They found a business card for a Rudolph the Red. It said “Rudolph the Red knows reindeer!”"

ROFL!! That cracked me up!!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“…before the area was inundated with almost 70 feet of water some 8,500 years ago”

It was obviously an SUV driving wall.

[Larry Lucido]

:-)

[SunkenCiv]

LOL. It seems likely that there are many more of these, including in deeper water.

[redangus]

8500 years ago? That’s a lot of reindeer farts. Glad they weeded some of them out. Those little buggers were really screwing up the climate.

[carcraft]

I was going to note the internal combustion engine that lead to flooding that inundated the area. I bet the stupid republican climate deniers driving the SUVs spot lighted the reindeer !

[SunkenCiv]

It be hooved the ancients to try to fix the problem, but they didn’t, and were destroyed for their inaction. :^)

[katana]

Built to keep out illegal immigrants from Doggerland. /s

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

Thanks, SunkenCiv.

By the way, a great story about the terrors of Global Warming, which we face so urgently today. If only we had regulated the use of fire!

[SunkenCiv]

:^)

[SunkenCiv]

Or maybe vice versa, none of those uplander snow people wanted there! :^)

[SunkenCiv]

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• Doggerland: Secrets of ancient land submerged to be revealed [09/02/2015]
• Ancient underwater forest discovered off Norfolk coast [01/31/2015]
• 'How Britain's Atlantis' and its tribes were wiped out by a TSUNAMI triggered by a landslide [05/02/2014]
• Snails Reveal Ancient Human Migration from France to Ireland [06/23/2013]
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• The Netherlands: Archaeologists Find Habitation Sites in Port of Rotterdam [11/17/2011]
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• The moment Britain became an island [02/14/2011]
• Stone Age remains are Britain's earliest house [08/10/2010]
• Exploration of underwater forest [Loch Tay] [07/16/2008]
• Undersea slide set off giant flow [11/22/2007]
• Stone Age Site Surfaces After 8,000 Years [08/06/2007]
• Lost World Warning From (Under) North Sea [04/23/2007]
• Dating A Massive Undersea Slide (8,100 Year Ago) [01/05/2007]
• ARCHAEOLOGY: Stone Age World Beneath the Baltic Sea [12/09/2006]
• Scientists Discover Lost World (8,000 Years Old) [02/15/2004]
• Stone Age Settlements Found Underwater In Britain [09/11/2003]
• Giant Wave Hit Ancient Scotland [09/07/2001]

[Verginius Rufus]

Shouldn’t it be the Blitzenwall, after one of Santa’s reindeer?