ARHS, Denmark – At the end of the last ice period about 8,800 years ago, the surface increased to 6.5 feet per cent due to melting glaciers. In northern Europe, the life of this change, as predators collecting communities were forced to move abroad, and the growing waters sank existing coastal settlements. Many of them will be lost forever. Associated Press According to these reports, Danish water underground archaeologists have located a mesolithic coastal settlement about 25 feet below the Gulf surface. The divers have excavated an area of about 430 square feet. In this investigation, small pieces of animal bones, stone tools, arrows, a seal teeth, and working wood are giving archaeologists a picture that was like thousands of years ago on the coast. “It’s like a time capsule,” said Peter Moe Astroup, a researcher at the Missigrard Museum. “When the sea level increased, everything was stored in an oxygen -free environment … time stops.” The team is hoping that more work will bring Harpoon, Fish Hooks, or fishing structures that can provide information on very little fishing technique. To read about the evidence of the world lost in the North Sea, “Diggerland’s letter: a missing landscape map”.
The post settlement on the Danish Waters was first published on the archaeological magazine.
