OSLO, Norway – Fish nets dating back 7,000 years have been radiocarbon identified in Lake Tesse, located in the mountains of southern Norway, according to a la brujula verde Report. About 10,000 years ago, as the glaciers retreated from the area, people were able to move into the mountains. However, fish are not able to swim upstream against waterfalls and rapids. It was believed that humans transported the fish to higher elevations to establish them as a food source, but when this occurred was not known. Axel Majoram of the University of Oslo and colleagues have now determined that the fish, possibly brown trout (salmo trutta), were introduced to the high altitude lake during the Mesolithic period. Mjerm suggests that it can be interpreted as an early form of human intervention in food production and the environment before the development of agriculture. He also said that brown trout can still be caught in the mountains today. Read the original scholarly article about this research ancient times. To read about the submerged remains of the Mesolithic world in the North Sea, visit “Letters from Doggerland: Mapping a Vanishing Landscape“
Post Mesolithic fish traps found in the southern mountains of Norway first appeared on archeology magazine.