Jacob Geersen, Marcel Bradtmöller, Jens Schneider von Deimling, Peter Feldens, Jens Auer, Philipp Held, Arne Lohrberg, Ruth Supka, Jasper Justus Lutz Hoffmann, Berit Valentin Eriksen, Wolfgang Rabbel, Hans-Jörg Karlsen, Sebastian Krastel, David Brandt, David Heuskin, Harald Lübke
The Baltic Sea basins, some of which only submerged in the mid-Holocene, preserve Stone Age structures that did not survive on land. Yet, the discovery of these features is challenging and requires cross-disciplinary approaches between archeology and marine geosciences. Here, we combine shipborne and autonomousunderwater vehicle hydroacoustic data with up to a centimeter range resolution, sedimentological samples, and optical images to explore a Stone Age megastructure located in 21 m water depth in the Bay of Mecklenburg, Germany...
February 20, 2024: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America