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Stone Age settlement found under the sea in Denmark

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198 points isaacfrond | 3 comments | 29 Aug 25 07:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.537s | source
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Empact ◴[02 Sep 25 02:38 UTC] No.45098579[source]▶
Given human propensity to settle near bodies of water (exhibited even to this day), and the change in sea levels after the last ice age, the bulk of intra-ice age settlement artifacts are probably submerged within a relatively short distance from our existing coastlines. I would be personally interested in an effort to systematically investigate these areas.
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1. erk__ ◴[02 Sep 25 05:24 UTC] No.45099410[source]▶
This is not even the only stone age settlement under water in Denmark, there is at least one other I know of on Zealand, article in Danish about it: https://www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/fagligt/marinarkaeologi/ma...
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2. willvarfar ◴[02 Sep 25 05:49 UTC] No.45099533[source]▶
And here's one nearby in modern-day Sweden https://www.forskning.se/2016/11/07/valbevarade-spar-fran-st...

Sorry can't find much in English or much about it at all. Iirc I once chanced upon a meet-some-archaeologists stall set up in a town square nearby and listened to an archaeologist talking about it and showing fancy maps and diagrams that really excited me, but none of that seems to have spilled online.

3. neuronic ◴[02 Sep 25 10:14 UTC] No.45101084[source]▶
There are likely way more, given that continental Europe was much larger just 8,000 years ago: https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/doggerland