The authors exclude the possibility of this structure originating under the influence of natural processes or modern human activity.
The oldest monumental structure in Europe was discovered at the bottom of Mecklenburg Bay in the Baltic Sea. This wall was made of stones about 11 thousand years ago. It was used for squad hunting for reindeer. This is stated in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The find was discovered by German archaeologists.
“We discovered about a kilometer long underwater stone wall. This structure was built more than ten thousand years ago by hunter-gatherers during the last Ice Age – at the end of the Paleolithic or the beginning of the Mesolithic. The wall was used by Stone Age people for squad hunting for migrating reindeer. Currently, “Only about five thousand people live in the whole of Northern Europe,” said a joint statement from the universities of Rostock, Kiel and the Leibniz Association Institute in Warnemünde.
The total weight of the structure is estimated to exceed 140 tons. It found itself underwater about 8,500 years ago as a result of the rising level of the then slightly saline Littorina Sea, when salty water from the ocean began to seep into this part of the depression of the future Baltic Sea.
Recall that a group of scientists in China unearthed an ancient frog with a stomach full of eggs.
Source: korrespondent
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