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This 15,800-Year-Old Etching Could Be One of the Oldest Depictions of Fishing

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Researchers from Durham University in England and the Leibniz Zentrum fÃr ArchÃologie in Germany used advanced imaging techniques to reveal a fish engraving behind grid-like patterns on an ancient schist plaquette (a small slice-like piece of a type of metamorphic rock) The etching is one of hundreds of engraved plaquettes recovered from GÃnnersdorf , an Ice Age campsite in modern-day Germany , about 15,800 years ago .