{"id":282393,"date":"2016-12-03T00:35:52","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T23:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/swedish-researchers-find-submerged-mesolithic-settlement\/"},"modified":"2016-12-03T00:35:52","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T23:35:52","slug":"swedish-researchers-find-submerged-mesolithic-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/swedish-researchers-find-submerged-mesolithic-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish Researchers Find Submerged Mesolithic Settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>A team of researchers headed by Lund University\u2019s Professor Dan Hammarlund has uncovered an exceptionally well-preserved Mesolithic site off the Baltic Sea coast at Hav\u00e4ng in south-eastern Sweden. They believe the location was a lagoon environment where ancient humans lived during parts of the year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe submerged landscape at Hav\u00e4ng is unique, as the excellent preservation of both natural and cultural objects and the longevity of the site are rarely seen in other submerged Mesolithic sites,\u201d Prof. Hammarlund and co-authors said.<\/p>\n<p>Changes in the sea level have allowed the findings to be preserved deep below the sea surface.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOrganic-rich sediment ridges with abundant wood remains and archaeological artifacts extend 3 km from the modern coast to depths of at least 20 m below the present sea level,\u201d the scientists said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis exceptionally well-preserved material gives evidence of a lagoonal environment surrounded by a pine-dominated forest, which was inhabited by Mesolithic humans during two low-stand phases of the Baltic Basin, from the Yoldia Sea stage to the Initial Littorina Sea stage (11,700-8,000 years ago).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Hammarlund and his colleagues from Lund University and the National Historical Museums drilled into the seabed and radiocarbon dated the core, as well as examined pollen and diatoms.<\/p>\n<p>They also produced a bathymetrical map that reveals depth variations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dAs geologists, we want to recreate this area and understand how it looked. Was it&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/swedish-researchers-find-submerged-mesolithic-settlement\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers headed by Lund University\u2019s Professor Dan Hammarlund has uncovered an exceptionally well-preserved Mesolithic site off the Baltic Sea coast at Hav\u00e4ng in south-eastern Sweden. They believe the location was a lagoon environment where ancient humans lived during parts of the year. \u201cThe submerged landscape at Hav\u00e4ng is unique, as the excellent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-282393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}