Stone Age ‘Atlantis’ lost to the sea 8,500 years ago offers new glimpse into prehistoric life
Archaeologists discovered a underwater city in the Gulf of Aarhus, Denmark, greeted as an Atlantis.
The team has revealed a simple tool in which they believe that a human being with a small processed activity, probably a human being, a small processed wooden piece of wood, and a small piece of wood.
The researchers dug an area of approximately 430 square meters in small settlement.
The last ice age ended about 8,500 years ago and the large layers of ice began to melt.
Sea levels rapidly rose to a few meters in the century, overflowing the settlements of the stone age, and the hunter-gatherer communities forced the interior.
According to the underwater archaeologist Peter Moe Astrup, led by accidents, rising global sea levels reshaped the coastline.
‘This is like a time capsule. When the sea level rises, everything was preserved in an oxygen -free environment.
In fact, we have an old coastline. We have a settlement located directly on the coastline. ‘
Archaeologists discovered a lost city under the sea, greeting as a stone -age atlanty
Underwater archaeologist Peter Moe Astrup, Aarhus, the Gulf of Aarhus in the Gulf of Aarhus 8,500 -year -old stone age is examining a small animal bone that emerged in the coastal settlement.
This summer, divers carefully landed about 26 meters below the waves near Denmark’s second largest city Aarhus, and used special underwater vacuums to collect sensitive works without damaging.
The team scanned the site with a comb, documented each finding in detail, allowing researchers to restructure the order and daily life of a frozen settlement in time.
Discovery is part of an international project of six -year -olds of $ 15.5 million to match the parts of the sea bed in the Baltic and the north seas.
Its aim is to explore the Sunken Northern European landscapes and to reveal lost Mesolithic settlements as the open sea wind farms and other sea infrastructure expand.
Most evidence of such settlements have previously been found in the inner regions of the Stone Age Coast, but the last discovery is among the first discovery that emerged under the sea.
Moe Astrup said he hoped that he and his team would find more excavation harpoon, fish hooks or fishing structures.
The site offers a rare look at how Mesolithic people interact with their environment.
Residents living directly on the coastline would largely rely on fishing, hunting and plants collection from nearby forests.
The team found trees soaked in the sea bed and allowed them to remove the settlement until the age of 8,500
The protection of organic substances such as wood and hazelnuts allows researchers not only understand what people do and eat, but also to adapt tools and techniques to survive in a changing landscape.
Aarhus’ excavations in relatively calm and shallow sheep and dives on the coast of Germany will then follow two places in the unusual North Sea.
Thousands of years ago, the rise at the sea level dived into a large area known as Doggerland, which connects England to Continental Europe and now lying under the South North Sea.
Danish researchers use dendrochronology, which is the study of tree rings to watch how quickly the water rises.
The wrecking tree stumps protected in mud and sediment can be fully dated, and the rising tides occur when the drowning coastal forests.
The team revealed an animal bones, stone tools, arrow tips, a seal teeth and a small processed wooden piece of wood, probably a simple tool (in the picture).
Moesgaard Museum Dendrochronologist Jonas Ogdal Jensen, looking at a part of a stone age tree body from a microscope, “ `We can say very precisely when these trees die on the coastline, ” he said.
‘This tells us something about how the sea level has changed over time.’
Since today’s world faces rising sea levels caused by climate change, researchers hope to shed light on how the stone -age societies adapted to the coastal lane that changed eight thousand years ago.
Mo It is hard to answer exactly what it means for people, M said Moe Astrup said. ‘But it had a great impact in the long run because it completely changed the landscape.’
Sea levels have increased by about 4.3 centimeters (1.7 inches) in a decade by 2023.
