Hunter-gatherers introduced fish to a mountain lake 7000 years ago
Archaeologists discovered ancient wooden fish traps at Lake Tesse in Norway, proving that hunter-gatherers transported brown trout to this isolated mountain lake at least 7000 years ago. This finding represents the oldest documented example of human-mediated fish translocation in the world. The evidence suggests that early people managed their environment to secure a reliable food supply centuries before farming arrived in Scandinavia, challenging previous assumptions about natural fish migration.
This is the oldest documented example of human-mediated translocation of fish in the world.
- m463
> That is the only possible explanation for how fish could have populated isolated mountain lakes
isn't that a common question?
"How do fish appear in landlocked lakes/ponds/etc"?
After digging a pond and letting it fill with rainwater/groundwater, fish appear. I don't think its because people carried them there.
(don't really know the common answer though)
- EvanAnderson
"Someone brought the black bass to this lake from far away, changing the biological distribution of the lake."
- fractallyte
An alternative vector: "cloud seeding" (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2004/sep/09/science.rese...)
Charles Fort collected numerous data for his famous "The Book of the Damned" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_the_Damned