Stone Age settlement lost to rising seas 8,500 years ago found off Denmark coast

Bay of Ars, Denmark – Under the dark blue water of the Gulf of Arohus in northern Denmark, archaeologists discovered coastal settlements by increasing sea level more than 8,500 years ago.

In this summer, the divers, the second largest city in Denmark, descended about 26 feet below the waves close to the Arhus, and collected evidence of the disposal of a stone era from the seabed.

It is part of a $ 15.5 million six-year international project to map parts of the sebed in Baltic and North Seas funded by the European Union, including researchers from the Lower Sexony Institute for historic coastal research at Bradford University, UK, as well as the UK Bradford University and Germany.

The goal is to detect northern European landscapes and highlight the mesolithic settlements lost as an expansion of the offshore wind fields and other marine infrastructure.

Underwater archaeologist Peter Mo Astroup said that most of the evidence of such settlements has been found so far at places of Stone Edge Coast, leading underwater excavation in Denmark.

“Here, we have actually an old beach. We have a compromise located directly on the beach,” he said. “We really try to find out what life was in a coastal settlement.”

After the age of the final snow, the huge snow sheets melted and the global sea level increased, submerging the collisions of the Stone Age and forced the hunter-Hathkadi human population inland.

About 8,500 years ago, the sea level increased by about 6.5 feet per cent, Mo Astroup said.

The Mo Astroup and colleagues have excavated an area of ​​about 430 sq ft in a small colony discovered from today’s coast in the Mozgard Museum in Hozbarj.

Early divers exposed the possibility of animal bones, stones tools, arrow teeth, a seal teeth, and a small piece of work wood, a simple tool. Researchers are combing site meters by meter using a type of water under water to collect materials for future analysis.

He hopes that further excavations will find marks of harpuns, fishhukes or fishing structures.

“It is like a time capsule,” Mo Astroup said. “When the sea level rises, everything was preserved in an oxygen -free environment … the time just stops.”

“We find completely preserved wood,” he said. “We find hazelnuts. … Everything is well preserved.”

The relatively quiet and shallow bay of Aroh will be excavated in two places in the North Sea in the North Sea, an excavation in the shallow and shallow bay.

The sea level was submerged thousands of years ago, among other things, a vast region known as Dogarland, which connects Britain to continental Europe and is now located below the southern North North Sea.

To create a picture of rapid rise of water, Danish researchers are using dendrokeronology, The Study of Tree Ring.

The stumps of the protected tree protected in mud and sediment can be dated properly when the growing tide is revealed in the coastal forests.

“We can say very accurately when these trees died on the coast,” the Moesgaard museum dendrochronologist Jonas Ogdal Jensen said that he suffered from a microscope to a portion of the stem of the stone age tree through a microscope.

“It tells us something about how the sea level changed through time.”

As the world is increasing sea levels inspired by climate change, researchers are expected to throw light on how the societies of the Stone Age had adapted to move more than eight millenniums to move more coasts.

Mo Astroup said, “It is difficult to answer what it means for people.” “But this clearly had a huge impact in the long run as it completely changed the landscape.”

In the decade of 2023, the sea level increased to a global average of about 1.7 inches in the decade.

Denmark has seen many important archaeological discoveries in recent years, including a metal detectorist Stunning early last year of gold ring Set with a red semi-precious stone that researchers hoped that the history of the country would be highlighted during the early Middle Ages.

Officials at the National Museum of Denmark announced that after the centuries -old ring, it is believed to have been owned by a member of the Royal family about 1,400 years ago, transferred from a separate museum near the Discovery site near the Discovery site near the German border.

This discovery came a few weeks after archaeologists A small knife found For the first or second century AD, or about 2,000 years ago. According to the museum Odense, the oldest mark of writing found in Denmark.

Runs, or runic letters, are the oldest alphabets used in Scandinavia, have been in use for about 1,000 years until they were largely replaced by the Latin alphabet when Christians began to spread their confidence system in the 10th century when Christians started spreading their belief system.

Earlier this year, officials announced that a piece Fossil vomiting, When dinosaurs wandered on the earth, dating back, was discovered in Denmark.