Estimated to be over 10,000 years old, the kilometer-long wall was likely used for hunting.
Divers working off the coast of Rostock, Germany, have found the broken-up remains of a wall on the bottom of the Baltic Sea. Researchers believe the Stone Age construction is over 10,000 years old, potentially making it the oldest human megastructure in Europe, and was likely used to herd prey during hunts. The wall dates to a time when the local sea level was lower. Around 8,500 years ago, the sea levels rose and swallowed the structure, which now sits at a depth of 69 feet .
When the structure was still above water, it ran alongside an ancient lake or bog. The stones’ placement “argues against a natural origin by glacial transport or ice push ridges,” the team wrote in the paper. Humans—Homo sapiens, but also our nearest cousins, Homo neanderthalensis—modify the landscape around them to make tools, create fire, and establish settlements. Some of the largest-scale changes to the landscape are those made for hunting.
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