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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“Why no fish fossils? Perhaps no fish.” Mastodons, for example, were common during the most recent ice age, if we can judge from the abundance of their bones in river and glacial sediments ...
The Atlantic sturgeon survived the ice age and outlasted the dinosaurs, but the 250 million-year-old forage fish might not survive the modern age. In the Hudson River, there were just 450 adults ...