Recent Findings In The Oceans Around Damsay May Hold The Key To The Problems We Face Today

It seems that an ever changing and evolving environment is something that even our ancestors had to deal with. As we face uncertain times today in regards to global warming and the melting of solar ice caps, it seems that long ago there were just as drastic global changes that may have buried man’s earlier eras.

This is all becoming apparent due to the recent archaeological findings around the area of Damsay Island. Investigations into what lies beneath the bay’s watery surfaces are showing up many structures and artefacts that could only have been man made. These are the first uncoverings in this nature ever to be discovered around the United Kingdom.

In terms of what items are specifically being looked at, one of the archaeologists Caroline Wickham-Jones states, “We have certainly got a lot of stonework. There are some quite interesting things. You can see voids or entrances.”

While there have been other prominent underwater expanses to have been explored in other regions, these are the first of their kind. There is much more than simply meso-neolithic landscapes or natural rock formations, as these are obviously much more intricate, advanced and refined, surely the work of earlier man. There is everything from what looks to be stone tables and even headstones that were engraved out of rocks.

These are signs of a society with a unique culture of their own and functioning much in the ways of earlier generations. It seems these structures are aplenty all around the Orkney area and as the team continues their mission more and more artefacts or being discovered. “Pretty much anywhere in Orkney you can see a vista which has part of man within it, ancient man in the environment,” notes Richard Bates who is a geophysicist located out of the Scottish Oceans Institute.

So perhaps are this team exploring a long ago city or community that had then been submerged due to catastrophic climate changes? One can only venture to guess what actually lead to the demise of what appears to be the makings of a relatively evolved culture.

Yet this team looks to find answers to that very question and in so doing perhaps use what they conjecture to be applied to times today. “The really interesting thing about this bay is the stories relating to things under the sea and sea-level change. Our ancestors were dealing with similar problems to ourselves and we’d like to see how they coped with it.” With this in mind, perhaps some of the answers to going forward in our own environmental adaptations are just waiting to be uncovered below the ocean’s surface.

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