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Offline Ultravanillasmurf

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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

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.
« Last Edit: 24 February 2024, 04:05:34 AM by Westfalia Chris »

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Re: A submerged Stone Age hunting architecture from the Western Baltic Sea
« Reply #1 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

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Re: A submerged Stone Age hunting architecture from the Western Baltic Sea
« Reply #2 on: 26 February 2024, 11:25:20 AM »
Great find!  8)
Miniatures you say? Well I too, like to live dangerously...


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Re: A submerged Stone Age hunting architecture from the Western Baltic Sea
« Reply #3 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.

 

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