Underwater Stone Age Site Was Fisherman's Paradise
By Kacey Deamer, Staff Writer | December 1, 2016 07:57am ET
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Underwater Stone Age Site Was Fisherman's Paradise
The researchers uncovered a total of eight ancient fishing traps — made of rods of braided hazel wood — and a 9,000-year-old pick axe that was made out of elk antlers.
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A now-submerged Stone Age settlement has been mapped in the Baltic Sea, revealing how its ancient inhabitants lived along what was once a lagoon on the coast of Sweden some 9,000 years ago.
The exceptionally well-preserved site was discovered about seven years ago, after divers came upon what are now considered to be the oldest stationary fish traps in northern Europe. It turns out that those fishing traps were a part of the Haväng site, which archaeologists now believe was once a lagoon environment where Mesolithic humans lived during parts of the year.
http://www.livescience.com/57048-underwater-stone-age-settlement-mapped.html
