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Miniatures Adventure => Weird Wars => Topic started by: Ultravanillasmurf on 23 February 2024, 10:05:13 PM

Title: A submerged Stone Age hunting architecture from the Western Baltic Sea
Post by: Ultravanillasmurf on 23 February 2024, 10:05:13 PM

This is an interesting real world article on a nearly 1km long stone wall constructed 10,000 years ago in what is now the Baltic Sea.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2312008121 (https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2312008121)

It is thought to have been a used as an aid to hunting.

It is more than possible similar structures exist in Doggerland, and could make an interesting scenic item.

Title: Re: A submerged Stone Age hunting architecture from the Western Baltic Sea
Post by: Westfalia Chris on 24 February 2024, 04:13:10 AM

That caught my eye, too, when the news broke in it, albeit with more of a look towards Slaìne for me personally.

For those who can read it, here's a link to the German-language version of National Geographic including a digital reconstruction of how it might have looked:

https://www.nationalgeographic.de/geschichte-und-kultur/2024/02/megastruktur-riesige-steinmauer-am-ostsee-boden-entdeckt (https://www.nationalgeographic.de/geschichte-und-kultur/2024/02/megastruktur-riesige-steinmauer-am-ostsee-boden-entdeckt)

Title: Re: A submerged Stone Age hunting architecture from the Western Baltic Sea
Post by: Daeothar on 26 February 2024, 11:25:20 AM

Great find!  8)

Title: Re: A submerged Stone Age hunting architecture from the Western Baltic Sea
Post by: Rick on 22 November 2024, 02:57:21 AM

Interesting stuff. You can tell when Archaeologists are stumped as to the purpose of something they've found - bronze age or later, it's 'ritual' but earlier than that it's 'something to do with hunting'.
It may well be a great boundary marker - in the UK there are some big ditches that, it's been suggested, are marking a great boundary between two settled peoples.