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7,000-year-old fish traps show hunter-gatherers brought fish to Norway’s mountains centuries before farming Seven thousand-year-old wooden fish traps found in southern Norway are changing views of life before farming. The finds show Mesolithic hunter-fisher-gatherers moved brown trout into mountain lakes around 5000 BCE.... More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/07/hunter-gatherers-brought-fish-to-norways-mountains/ Follow @archaeology@mstdn.social #archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #anthropology #mesolithic #huntergatherer

7,000-year-old fish traps in southern Norway indicate hunter-fisher-gatherers were moving brown trout into mountain lakes by 5000 B.C., long before farming reached the region. #mesolithic https://phys.org/news/2026-07-centuries-farming-hunter-fish-norwegian.html