Archaeologists have discovered a set of footprints in Denmark dating back to 5,000 years ago, where it could provide new undertsanding how ancient Stone Age coastal people lived and thrived during that period.

Researchers from the Museum Lolland-Falster uncovered two separate sets of footprints during an excavation in Lolland Island located in the Baltic Sea. According to museum archaeologist Terje Stafseth, the discovery is remarkable as human footprints is rarer than uncovering tools and pottery and besides, this is a different kind of evidence, left by ancient humans.

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Researchers believe that since these two sets of footprints were found near the remnants of a fishing trap from the same period, it is very likely that these were evidence left by ancient fishermen.

According to Lars Ewald Jensen, the excavation project manager, it seems like the fishermen were moving out towards the fishing fence or trap, where footprints are strategically located at each side of the post, seems like someone was trying to remove it from under the sea surface. 

Lolland Island is apparently, made up of streams and inlets until a sea dyke was constructed towards the end of the 19th century.

Stafseth admits that this is the first time that the team had come across with human footprints from the Danish Stone Age.

Right now, the team has been working non stop in order to recover artifacts and relics incuding fossil evidence from the excavation site, due to the underwater tunnel construction to start next year, linking Denmark and Germany under the Baltic Sea from Lolland to Fehmarn. 

The facilities located above ground in Lolland for the Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link tunnel will destroy the site, where the footprints were discovered. In order to preserve the footprints, scientists are into a race in creating molds out of the footprints, for further analysis.

Apart from these human footprints, archaeologists have exhumed numerous skulls of animals believed to be domestic and wild ones, which were probably offerings made by farmers some 4,000 years back.

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