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The paper written about this discovery can be accessed at:
http://www.researchgate.net/publica...n_Sea)_Evidence_for_Mesolithic_human_activity
In deep water off the coast of Sicily, scientists have found a large and very mysterious monolith that is believed to have been hewn from rock some 10,000 years ago. ...
The stone artifact--which is pierced by three holes--is about 12 meters long and roughly square in cross section, with each side measuring about 2 meters. It was discovered by a diver on Sept. 16, 2014 at a depth of about 40 meters on what was once an island in the Sicilian Channel ...
Exactly who made the monolith? No one knows for sure, though evidence suggests that it was fashioned by members of an ancient Mediterranean culture who lived in the area until their land was swallowed by rising sea levels some 9,ooo years ago. ...
As for the monolith's purpose, it might have been "some sort of a lighthouse or an anchoring system," according to Lodolo.
The paper written about this discovery can be accessed at:
http://www.researchgate.net/publica...n_Sea)_Evidence_for_Mesolithic_human_activity