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Archeologists Discover Stone Wall Made and Used by Palaeolithic Hunters
People living 10,000 years ago constructed what may be the new oldest ‘megastructure’ in Germany for hunting, but now it lies near the bottom of the Baltic Sea.
Archeologists used to be limited in their explorations to reasonably accessible places, but that’s changing thanks to technological advancements. Now, experts can scan an entire landscape of dense vegetation from the air using LiDAR to reveal structures hidden beneath, and they’re increasingly able to venture away from land.
Sonar and other technology allow researchers to scan the bottom of oceans and seas to reveal what lies in their depths. As a result, the number of archeological finds is booming, and what they’re finding rapidly alters our knowledge of the past, like today’s topic. A megastructure found by accident has changed known history by showing us that (surprise, surprise) Palaeolithic humans were more intelligent than we gave them credit for.
The Discovery
While now at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research in Germany, marine geologist Jacob Geersen taught a short one-week field course for the University of Kiel back in 2021, also in Germany, but this course…
