A group of scientists has found a stone wall in the Baltic Sea that could be the oldest human-built megastructure in Europe, according to an article published this Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
In autumn 2021, geologists discovered about 1,500 stones aligned regularly forming a row almost a kilometer long at 21 meters deep at the bottom of Mecklenburg Bay, located about 10 kilometers from the town of Rerik (Germany). ).
A multidisciplinary team of experts concluded that Stone Age hunter-gatherers probably built the structure to hunt reindeer, before this species disappeared from those latitudes after the climate became warmer, about 11,000 years ago.
“Our research indicates that it is not very likely that the underwater stone wall has a natural origin or that it was built in modern times, for example in connection with the laying of underwater cables or stone quarrying,” explained author Jacob Geersen. main of the study. “The methodical arrangement of the numerous small stones connecting the large immobile rocks speaks against this,” he added.
Scientists now plan to further investigate the stone wall and the surrounding seabed in search of new archaeological finds that could help interpret the discovered structure, which could make an important contribution to the understanding of life, organization and hunting methods of early Stone Age hunter-gatherers.
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