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Stone Age settlement found under the sea in Denmark

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198 points isaacfrond | 5 comments | 29 Aug 25 07:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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jl6 ◴[02 Sep 25 08:30 UTC] No.45100453[source]▶
> As today’s world faces rising sea levels driven by climate change, the researchers hope to shed light on how Stone Age societies adapted to shifting coastlines more than eight millennia ago.

Unfortunately I don't expect there is any particularly reusable solution to be uncovered. Ancient peoples facing rising tides almost certainly just walked a bit inland and built new huts there. They probably thought nothing of it. They were a far more physically mobile culture, without great dependence on immense, immovable infrastructure - nor on rigid land ownership rules.

Our culture's migration will be entirely different.

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1. skeezyboy ◴[02 Sep 25 11:18 UTC] No.45101527[source]▶
> Our culture's migration will be entirely different.

yeah, weve got even better technology, itll be even less of a hassle

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2. johndunne ◴[02 Sep 25 12:11 UTC] No.45102054[source]▶
I’m not sure the people who own property next to ‘at risk’ coastlines will agree. As a whole, society may continue but there’s a lot of people at risk of losing their property as a result of rising sea levels. Probably decades from now.
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3. plasticchris ◴[02 Sep 25 12:49 UTC] No.45102448[source]▶
We have government subsidized insurance in the USA on coastal properties. The rest of us will pay for it.
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4. skeezyboy ◴[02 Sep 25 13:37 UTC] No.45102940[source]▶
Its certainly not existential. If anything itll probably spur some kind of new invention wed be glad to have (think WW2 and fertilizer)
5. barbazoo ◴[02 Sep 25 16:43 UTC] No.45105571{3}[source]▶
Much more expensive next time as we're not only subsidizing people's insurance but subsidizing moving them somewhere else. Orders of magnitude higher cost I imagine.