Archaeologists have collected evidence of an ancient settlement in the waters of Denmark’s Bay of Aarhus that had lain on the seabed, at a depth of about eight metres (26 feet).
The evidence is part of a six-year, €13.2 million (BD 5,788,200) international project to map parts of the Baltic and North Sea beds, funded by the European Union.
This includes researchers from Aarhus, the UK’s University of Bradford, and Germany’s Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Coastal Research.
The underwater archaeologist leading the underwater excavations, Peter Moe Astrup, has said that evidence of such settlements has been chiefly found inland from the Mesolithic coast.
Additionally, the archaeologist and his colleagues at Moesgaard Museum in Højbjerg have already excavated an area of about 40 square metres (430 square feet) at the settlement that was discovered just off today’s coast.
The main goal of the initiative is to explore Northern European landscapes that have been submerged and uncover lost Mesolithic settlements, which typically consisted of villages of huts.
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