Remains of 7,000-year-old sunken stone road discovered off Croatia's coast

The submerged ruins of a 7,000-year-old road are hiding underwater off the coast of the Croatian island of Korčula. The Neolithic structure once connected the island to an ancient, artificial landmass.

Archaeologists announced the discovery of the "strange structures" in a May 6 post on Facebook, describing them as the remains of a roadway that are now submerged about 16 feet (5 meters) beneath the Adriatic Sea. The road consists of "carefully stacked stone plates" measuring roughly 13 feet (4 m) wide. The stone pavers had been buried by mud over the millennia. Archaeologists think the stone roadway was built by the Hvar, a lost maritime culture that resided in the area during the Neolithic period (6000 B.C. to circa 3000 B.C.).

"We [also] found late-Neolithic ornamented pottery, [a] stone axe, bone artifacts, flint knives and arrowheads," Mate Parica, an assistant professor in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Zadar in Croatia who took part in the excavation, told Live Science in an email. "[The] pottery findings help[ed] us to attribute this site to [the] Hvar culture."

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/remains-of-7000-year-old-sunken-stone-road-discovered-off-croatias-coast




Pretty cool.

its very possible if the stones are layered that the causway was a way to drag boats into deeper water. otherwise i beleive the stones wouldve been a tighter fit.

Wow. That's some amazing stuff they found there. Thanks for the share.

jirqoadai wrote:its very possible if the stones are layered that the causway was a way to drag boats into deeper water. otherwise i beleive the stones wouldve been a tighter fit.

Who knows? 'Tis possible. Can you imagine working an archeological dig 15-20 feet deep in the ocean? Fascinating.

2cent wrote:

jirqoadai wrote:its very possible if the stones are layered that the causway was a way to drag boats into deeper water. otherwise i beleive the stones wouldve been a tighter fit.

Who knows?  'Tis possible.  Can you imagine working an archeological dig 15-20 feet deep in the ocean?  Fascinating.

i suspect everything they have found was debris fill. they couldve utilized a coffer dam and used less funding. ( they used this as a gimmick for the people working to get the most bang for their buck ) remember lasalles boat in a texas bay? that was more exacting and cheap.

yeah. im getting old. ive forgotten where lasalles boat was found.

jirqoadai wrote:yeah. im getting old. ive forgotten where lasalles boat was found.

Matagorda Bay. (Texas coast)