Citation: Oldest depictions of fishing discovered in Ice Age art: Camp site reveals 15,800-year-old engravings of fish trapping (2024, November 7) retrieved 4 December 2024 from https://phys.org ...
Fifteen millennia ago, along the banks of the Rhine River, an artist from the Ice Age etched a fleeting moment into stone—a ...
The oldest known depictions of fishing were discovered on a cave wall in Germany and may be the key to understanding early fishing techniques from the Stone Age. While scientists have long known ...
They add that the Ice Age communities might have used nets, made from plant fibres. These would include milkweed or nettle, in order to help capture fish in larger quantities. "Fishing with nets ...
According to experts, the findings push the origins of net fishing back to 15,800 years. The study has been published in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS ONE. Experts note that the site of Gönnersdorf ...
Findings revealed the plankton were unable to keep pace with the current speed of temperature rise, putting huge swathes of marine life—including fish which ... the last Ice Age to be analyzed ...
Researchers has uncovered never before seen details in a set of prehistoric stone objects that feature a variety of artworks.
An ancient schist plaquette from the ice-age campsite of Gönnersdorf depicts a fish trap. The fish was first engraved and then overlaid with a net of lines ...
After analyzing 15,800-year-old engraved stones from a campsite in western Germany, archaeologists have concluded that the ...