Researchers uncover Stone Age site submerged by rising sea levels in Denmark

A diver excavates an 8,500-year-old Stone Age coastal settlement (Soren Christian Bech via AP)

Below the dark blue waters of the Bay of Aarhus in northern Denmark, archaeologists are searching for coastal settlements swallowed by rising sea levels more than 8,500 years ago.

This summer, divers descended about eight metres below the waves close to Aarhus, Denmark’s second-biggest city, and collected evidence of a Stone Age settlement from the seabed.