earliest depiction of fishing!..

15,800 years ago !!!!

After analyzing 15,800-year-old engraved stones from a campsite in western Germany, archaeologists have concluded that the rocks’ criss-crossed lines and shapes may be the oldest known depictions of fishing.

The stones were found at Gönnersdorf, an Ice Age archaeological site discovered in 1968 that holds “some of Europe’s richest ancient artistic treasures,” according to a statement from the Leibniz Center for Archaeology in Mainz, Germany.


“This study provides the first unambiguous visual evidence of fishing nets in European prehistory, based on the engraved motifs of fish within grid-like patterns,” lead author Jérôme Robitaille, an archaeologist at Monrepos, tells Newsweek’s Aristos Georgiou.


https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-ice-age-artworks-etched-into-rock-15800-years-ago-may-be-the-earliest-known-depictions-of-fishing-180985492/