Fishing about 3,500 years ago 🎣
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Fishing about 3,500 years ago

Bronze Age copper-alloy fishing hooks, from the pile dwelling settlement at Meersburg-Haltnau/Lake Constance.
#Fish was a staple diet for pile dwellers - caught with hooks and lines, nets, harpoons, and fish traps.
Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg
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Fishing about 3,500 years ago

Bronze Age copper-alloy fishing hooks, from the pile dwelling settlement at Meersburg-Haltnau/Lake Constance.
#Fish was a staple diet for pile dwellers - caught with hooks and lines, nets, harpoons, and fish traps.
Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg
You can't improve on perfect design, apparently.
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Fishing about 3,500 years ago

Bronze Age copper-alloy fishing hooks, from the pile dwelling settlement at Meersburg-Haltnau/Lake Constance.
#Fish was a staple diet for pile dwellers - caught with hooks and lines, nets, harpoons, and fish traps.
Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg
@ninawillburger I have to be honest, I first thought this was muslim Calligraphy.

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Fishing about 3,500 years ago

Bronze Age copper-alloy fishing hooks, from the pile dwelling settlement at Meersburg-Haltnau/Lake Constance.
#Fish was a staple diet for pile dwellers - caught with hooks and lines, nets, harpoons, and fish traps.
Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg
I wonder how the first people (I'd bet it was invented multiple times in history) came up with the idea of hooks (&bait) and fishing lines.

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Fishing about 3,500 years ago

Bronze Age copper-alloy fishing hooks, from the pile dwelling settlement at Meersburg-Haltnau/Lake Constance.
#Fish was a staple diet for pile dwellers - caught with hooks and lines, nets, harpoons, and fish traps.
Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg
@ninawillburger Notice the difference in the angle of the shanks, they were able to modify based on different fishing styles and/or types of fish. Same as used today.
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