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A recent paper published in the journal The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences discusses the discovery of a submerged megastructure in the Baltic Sea. At a depth of 21 metres, this structure, named the Blinkerwall, stretches for almost one kilometre and is thought to have been built by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers. In this video I discuss the arguments for and against a natural origin for this ancient structure as outlined in the paper and the various hypotheses for its function.
#ancienthistory #balticsea #mesolithic
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00:00 A Hidden Structure Beneath the Baltic Sea
00:42 Where the Structure Was Found
02:04 The Blinkerwall: A 9,000-Year-Old Structure?
04:15 Could Nature Have Created This?
06:55 Evidence It Was Built by Humans
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✨ REFERENCES
Geersen, J., Bradtmöller, M., Schneider von Deimling, J., Feldens, P., Auer, J., Held, P., Lohrberg, A., Supka, R., Hoffmann, J.J.L., Eriksen, B.V. and Rabbel, W., 2024. A submerged Stone Age hunting architecture from the Western Baltic Sea. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(8), p.e2312008121.
O’Shea, J.M., Lemke, A.K., Sonnenburg, E.P., Reynolds, R.G. and Abbott, B.D., 2014. A 9,000-year-old caribou hunting structure beneath Lake Huron. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(19), pp.6911-6915.
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Google Earth
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CC BY 4.0 DEED creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Images and diagrams on the research, credit: Geersen, J., et., al. in the paper referenced above.
Evolution of the Baltic Sea, credit: GEOMAR
CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0
Weichselian glaciation, credit: Ulamm
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Images from ‘Drop 45’ in Lake Huron, credit: O’Shea, J. M., et al. in the paper referenced above.
A recent paper published in the journal The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences discusses the discovery of a submerged megastructure in the Baltic Sea. At a depth of 21 metres, this structure, named the Blinkerwall, stretches for almost one kilometre and is thought to have been built by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers. In this video I discuss the arguments for and against a natural origin for this ancient structure as outlined in the paper and the various hypotheses for its function.
#ancienthistory #balticsea #mesolithic
✨ IN THIS EPISODE
00:00 A Hidden Structure Beneath the Baltic Sea
00:42 Where the Structure Was Found
02:04 The Blinkerwall: A 9,000-Year-Old Structure?
04:15 Could Nature Have Created This?
06:55 Evidence It Was Built by Humans
✨ JOIN MY CHANNEL
youtube.com/channel/UC0Hs5t0U6Uf993Tba22YmKA/join
✨ FOLLOW ME ON SOCIALS
Bluesky: @MegalithHunter.bsky.social
✨ REFERENCES
Geersen, J., Bradtmöller, M., Schneider von Deimling, J., Feldens, P., Auer, J., Held, P., Lohrberg, A., Supka, R., Hoffmann, J.J.L., Eriksen, B.V. and Rabbel, W., 2024. A submerged Stone Age hunting architecture from the Western Baltic Sea. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(8), p.e2312008121.
O’Shea, J.M., Lemke, A.K., Sonnenburg, E.P., Reynolds, R.G. and Abbott, B.D., 2014. A 9,000-year-old caribou hunting structure beneath Lake Huron. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(19), pp.6911-6915.
✨ PHOTOGRAPH CREDITS
Google Earth
Location pins
CC BY 4.0 DEED creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Images and diagrams on the research, credit: Geersen, J., et., al. in the paper referenced above.
Evolution of the Baltic Sea, credit: GEOMAR
CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0
Weichselian glaciation, credit: Ulamm
Other
Images from ‘Drop 45’ in Lake Huron, credit: O’Shea, J. M., et al. in the paper referenced above.
