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Stone Age settlement found under the sea in Denmark

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198 points isaacfrond | 1 comments | 29 Aug 25 07:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.335s | 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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flanked-evergl ◴[02 Sep 25 05:48 UTC] No.45099532[source]▶
The sea level rose more than 120 meters in the last 20000 years, so it won't necessarily be that short distance, but I think at least it should be easy to calculate where to look.
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1. hinkley ◴[02 Sep 25 07:09 UTC] No.45099987[source]▶
An area with a half % slope could have an entire city below the waterline.

I think we're going to find that much like central and parts of South America, the extent of civilization has been vastly underestimated because Nature has covered over it.