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5,500-Year-Old Fingerprint Found on Ceramic Vessel
Discovery News ^ | June 26, 2015 | Rossella Lorenzi

Posted on 07/01/2015 4:17:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

Danish archaeologists doing a survey ahead of the construction of the Femern Belt link scheme, an immersed tunnel that will connect the German island of Fehmarn with the Danish island of Lolland, have found a 5,500-year old-ceramic vessel bearing the fingerprint of the artisan who made it.

The vessel is known with the name "funnel beaker," a kind of ceramics which features a flat bottom with a funnel shaped neck. Such earthenware is characteristic of the Funnel Beaker Culture (4000 – 2800 B.C.), which represents the first farmers in Scandinavia and the north European plain.

It was found in pieces in a former fjord east of Rødby Havn, on the south coast of Lolland, Denmark.

"It is one of three beakers at the site, which originally was deposited whole probably containing some food or liquid presumably as part of some long forgotten ritual," Line Marie Olesen, archaeologist at the Museum Lolland-Falster, told Discovery News.

At the same site Olesen and colleagues last year found a 5,500-year-old flint axe with the handle still attached. The axe was deliberately jammed into what used to be the seabed during the Stone Age.

As the beaker was brought to the Danish National Museum for conservation, experts noticed a fingerprint on the interior surface.

"It must have been left there while manufacturing the pot," Olesen said...

Last year the same archaeological survey unearthed 5,000-year-old footprints left by people who attempted to save parts of their fishing system before it was flooded and covered in sand.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.discovery.com ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: archeology; beakerpeople; denmark; fehmarn; funnelbeaker; funnelbeakerculture; germany; godsgravesglyphs; lolland
The 5,500-year-old fingerprint (left) and the funnel beaker (right) as it was unearthed.

The 5,500-year-old fingerprint (left) and the funnel beaker (right) as it was unearthed.

1 posted on 07/01/2015 4:17:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 07/01/2015 4:18:26 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: SunkenCiv

When they find a 5,000 year old vessel with a phaser or disruptor left behind in it, that will be some big news.


3 posted on 07/01/2015 4:21:47 PM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: SunkenCiv

So, the Danes finally cracked the Funnel Beaker caper, eh? Probably stolen with that unregistered axe.


4 posted on 07/01/2015 4:22:47 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: SunkenCiv

It takes more imagination than I can muster.


5 posted on 07/01/2015 4:23:53 PM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Amazing.


6 posted on 07/01/2015 4:24:58 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Femern Belt link scheme

How does Europe build anything without an army of Mexicans?

7 posted on 07/01/2015 4:27:09 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Boy that Brian Williams really gets around!


8 posted on 07/01/2015 4:28:20 PM PDT by MomwithHope (Please support efforts in your state for an Article 5 convention.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Breaking news.

(5500 years is recent in archeology and you have broken pottery shards).


9 posted on 07/01/2015 5:10:52 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: SunkenCiv
Is there some significance to this? Was there doubt that people 5000 years ago had fingers?

Last year the same archaeological survey unearthed 5,000-year-old footprints left by people who attempted to save parts of their fishing system before it was flooded and covered in sand.Is this conjecture or do we have some way to know this?
10 posted on 07/01/2015 5:16:41 PM PDT by ronnietherocket3 (Mary is understood by the heart, not study of scripture.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Add it to a federal database. Ya never know.


11 posted on 07/01/2015 5:45:02 PM PDT by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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To: ronnietherocket3; SunkenCiv

Look at how this flex seal fixes the hole in this fish trap? It will last for at least 5500 years without leaking.


12 posted on 07/01/2015 6:01:55 PM PDT by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a murderer, and find one.... what's yoIur plan?)
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To: Sasparilla
When they find a 5,000 year old vessel with a phaser or disruptor left behind in it, that will be some big news.

... or an android's head with Mark Twain's cigar in its mouth.

13 posted on 07/02/2015 9:08:29 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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