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Great ‘Stone Age’ wall discovered in Baltic Sea

Megastructure stretching nearly 1 kilometre long is probably one of the oldest known hunting aids on Earth.
Section of a Stone Age megastructure in the Bay of Mecklenburg, Germany.

Boulders form part of a submerged Stone Age megastructure off the German coast. Credit: Philipp Hoy

Divers have helped to reveal the remnants of a kilometre-long wall that are submerged in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Rerik, Germany. The rocks date back to the Stone Age1.

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Nature 626, 695 (2024)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00409-w

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  1. Geersen, J. et al. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 121, e2312008121 (2024).

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