Posted on 01/26/2012 8:28:46 PM PST by SunkenCiv
An international team of archeologists, led by Ignacio Clemente, a researcher with the Spanish National Research Council, has discovered and documented an assemblage of fish seines and traps in the Dubna Basin near Moscow that are dated to be more than 7,500 years old. They say that the equipment, among the oldest found in Europe, displays a surprisingly advanced technical complexity. The finds illuminate the role of fishing among European settlements of the early Holocene (about 10,000 years ago), particularly where people did not practice agriculture until just before the advent of the Iron Age.
Says Clemente: "Until now, it was thought that the Mesolithic groups had seasonal as opposed to permanent settlements. According to the results obtained during the excavations, in both Mesolithic and Neolithic periods, the human group that lived in the Dubna river basin, near Moscow, carried out productive activities during the entire year".
According to the research team, the Neolithic and Mesolithic inhabitants of the region, known as Zamostje 2, hunted during summer and winter, fished during spring and early summer, and harvested wild berries near the end of the summer and throughout the fall. But Clemente and colleagues suggest that the fishing commanded a salient place in their survival and prosperity. Says Clemente: "We think that the fishing played a vital role in the economy of these societies, because it was a versatile product, easy to preserve, dry and smoke, as well as store for later consumption."
Three years of work have uncovered a variety of artifacts at the site, including everyday objects such as spoons, plates, working tools, hunting weapons, all made from flint and other stones, bones and shafts. Finds included well-preserved organic items of wood, tree leaves, fossil feces and fish remains.
(Excerpt) Read more at popular-archaeology.com ...
The Mussels from Brussels, otoh, were first reported in the early 1980s.
Thanks Renfield for the second article with pix.
They don't make 'em like they used to...
Very cool, thanks for the ping.
Thank you SC :) (your picture this morning was awesome though! *rolling eyes* lol!)
Sounds good to me.
Dynomite! I was wondering what they looked like.
They never did. ;^)
Those three are probably regulars at D.U.
I think they were born with an urge to eat! :D
My pleasure.
:’)
Could be, but I think there is one or two that keeps surfacing here on FR; telling everyone how conservative they are and infiltrating the state boards. Somebody keeps forgetting to shut the back door!
They don’t last long. :’)
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