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Are there Stone Age megastructures on the Baltic Sea floor? Research project SEASCAPE starts with kick-off at the IOW

Group photo of scientists participating in today's SEASCAPE kick-off meeting at the IOW
At today's SEASCAPE kick-off meeting at the IOW, the participating researchers want to get to know each other better, present practical work already carried out as part of the project and prepare future activities. (Photo: IOW / K. Beck)

The western Baltic Sea may harbour more of humanity’s cultural heritage than previously thought: underwater landscapes with monumental structures built by Stone Age hunter-gatherers. The interdisciplinary joint research project SEASCAPE, led by the IOW, now wants to investigate these unique traces. Today, researchers from all SEASCAPE partner institutions are meeting at the IOW to kick off the three-year collaboration.

 

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