In October 2026, divers off western Norway raised a 30-kilo grooved stone from a Stone Age quarry on the seabed. If it's an anchor, it may be the oldest ever found - and a clue to the first open-water seafarers.
Archaeology Magazine's report on the October 2026 find: a grooved, 30-kilogram stone raised from a submerged Stone Age quarry near Bomlo.
A fuller account of the discovery: the groove that likely held a rope, and why one archaeologist is 'absolutely convinced' it moored Stone Age boats.
The University Museum of Bergen on the greenstone quarry where axes were cut for 6,000 years - a Stone Age industrial site now beneath the sea.
From holed stones and baskets of rock to iron flukes: how humans have held boats against wind and current for thousands of years.
Lund University divers survey a submerged Mesolithic site, showing how much of early coastal life now lies underwater.
Experimental archaeologist Dr. James Dilley on how Stone Age people lived by lakes, rivers and coasts - and the boats that carried them.
Who were the hunter-gatherers quarrying greenstone and crossing Norway's fjords thousands of years before farming reached the north?