A submerged Mesolithic lagoonal landscape in the Baltic Sea, south-eastern Sweden – Early Holocene environmental reconstruction and shore-level displacement based on a multiproxy approach

Remains of a submerged landscape around the mouth of a small river are preserved off the Baltic Sea coast at Haväng in south-eastern Sweden. Organic-rich sediment ridges with abundant wood remains and archaeological artefacts extend 3 km from the modern coast to depths of at least 20 m below the present sea level. This exceptionally well-preserved material gives evidence of a lagoonal environment surrounded by a pine-dominated forest, which was...