Complex Fish Traps Over 7,500 Years Old Found in Russia

Popular Archaeology ^ | Wednesday, January 25, 2012 | unattributed

[SunkenCiv]

• Neanderthals ate shellfish 150,000 years ago: study

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[JRandomFreeper]

Funny that. We haven't changed all that much. After discussing some family financial business tonight, my brother and I discussed a mutual friend that wanted to set up one of his corrals as a feral pig trap.

Something I'm sure wouldn't have been out of place 7500 years ago.

/johnny

[Ramius]

We continue to underestimate our forebearers.

[Islander7]

They say that the equipment, among the oldest found in Europe, displays a surprisingly advanced technical complexity.

Why are these 'scientists' always surprised to learn that our ancestor were smart?

[nathanbedford]

My kids continue to underestimate their forebearers.

[1010RD]

Please forebear us the histrionics, grandpa. What could old white Russians know about anyway?

Wait a minute, there I go underesteeming again. Sorry.

[1010RD]

Perhaps if they’re fish traps were simpler they’d still be around?

[TigersEye]

Not only complex but long lasting fish traps too.

[Outlaw Woman]

[FishinTX]

Trapping for 7,500 years and they still haven’t caught me! Pllffftt!!

[bunkerhill7]

Complex Fish Traps Built by the Caviar Brothers Over 7,500 Years Old Found in Russia

[NeverForgetBataan]

The story says this all happened in the early homo scene. I wondered where that all started. Russia. That figures.

[octex]

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[bert]

“A brave man it was who first an oyster et”.... James Mitchner Chesapeake

[antisocial]

“hunted during summer and winter, fished during spring and early summer, and harvested wild berries near the end of the summer and throughout the fall.”

I remember doing some of that when I was a lad.

[TheOldLady]

So, we’re born with the urge to fish. Cool.

[colorado tanker]

They needed an edge like these traps.

Fish were tougher to catch back then.

[darth]

Don’t have the link anymore, but archeologists found some wooden items in a Danish bog that were 50,000 years old.

Turned out to be a leg hold trap with wooden springs.

Humans naturally preferred makin’ meat the easy way.

[SunkenCiv]

Cool, I would like to see more about that.