Excavating a 6,000-year-old Submerged Settlement off the Baltic Coast of Northern Germany (IMAGE)

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Excavating a 6,000-year-old Submerged Settlement off the Baltic Coast of Northern Germany

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Archaeologists from the Archäologisches Landesmuseum in Schleswig excavating a 6,000-year-old submerged settlement off the Baltic coast of Northern Germany. The site revealed a remarkably preserved late hunter-gatherer and early farmer artifacts, including ceramic vessels which were used in both periods to cook marine foods.

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Image courtesy of Sönke Hartz.

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