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Stone age wall found at bottom of Baltic Sea ‘may be Europe’s oldest megastructure’
(www.theguardian.com)
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Constructed more than 10,000 years ago. That could have been before the last ice age. Incredible find.
The last Glacial Period (aka Ice Age) lasted between 115000 years ago to about 11700 years ago. Roughly. So constructed more than 10000 years ago still putsit after the glacial period but could very well have been built by the first groups in the thawed area. Who knows, perhaps they could see glaciers to their north?
The fact it‘s so submerged and likely wasn‘t found until recently suggests the water levels were much lower than today or even some thousands of years ago. Late ice age seems plausibles from that standpoint. Also 11700 years ago kind of qualifies as „more than 10000 years ago“ right?
Water levels were lower during the glacial periods because of all the water in those frozen glaciers. The brittish islands were connected to mainland Europe for example. So there really isn't that much of a suggestion that sea levels were lower, established science that.
The original commentator probably got dates (or zeroes) mixed up. More than ten thousand years ago definitely doesn't put anything on the other side of the last glacial period (one hundred and twenty thousand tears ago).
An interesting side note is that due to the sea level rise many of the first human settlements of the Americas are now well under water and possibly lost forever. This makes dating the human arrival very difficult as we only have later very much inland settlements to go by.
presumably the water was locked up in ice - I suspect that no one really knows when the wall was constructed
The glacier would move the stones if it would have been built before ice age. The big stones were most probably left there by the glacier and the wall was built after it receded.