Overview

• Archaeologists have begun excavating a submerged Mesolithic settlement about 8 meters down in Denmark's Bay of Aarhus.
• Roughly 40 square meters have been uncovered so far, yielding animal bones, stone tools, arrowheads, a seal tooth and worked wood preserved in oxygen-free sediments.
• The work forms part of a six-year, €13.2 million European Union–funded effort involving the University of Bradford and Germany’s Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Coastal Research.
• Danish researchers are applying dendrochronology on submerged tree stumps to pinpoint when rising waters drowned former coastlines.
• Further dives are planned off Germany, followed by two sites in the more challenging waters of the North Sea.