During the late Pleistocene and Early Holocene, Northern Europe was populated by mobile hunter gatherers. Due to their non-sedentary lifestyle, traces of these societies are difficult to find, which hampers our understanding of how they lived and developed. Some parts of the SW Baltic Sea, however, only drowned in the Holocene and may therefore preserve anthropogenic structures and landscapes from these Palaeolithic/ early Mesolithic times. Recently, a submerged stonewall, likely a Stone Age architecture used for hunting, has been discovered in the SW Baltic Sea. A 3-years project (SEASCAPE) is funded by the Leibniz Association aiming to understand in more details this structure, identify other hitherto unrecognized Stone Age megastructures, and reconstruct the paleo-environment in which these structures were build. Analyse sediment cores retrieved from basins in the SW Baltic Sea. The sediments will be used in a “multi-proxy” approach (sedimentology, organic and inorganic geochemistry, micropalaeontology) to reconstruct paleo-environmental conditions during the late Pleistocene and early Holocene, when the stonewall might have been build.
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