Net swimmer
Power float (also called fleets) are floating perforated bark - or pieces of wood (Kieferborkeschwimmer of High Viecheln ) attached, from the Mesolithic occurring fishing nets were attached. They carry the net while floating on the surface of the water, while net countersinks at the lower edge of the net tighten it and hold it vertically. Later these floats were also made of cork and other good buoyant materials.
Fishing nets made of bast, fish traps , net floats as well as net sinkers and fishing hooks made of flint come from the sites of Friesack in Brandenburg or Hohen Viecheln in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The oldest set nets for fishing were discovered near Antrea (Finland) and near Satrup in Schleswig-Holstein . The Antrea gillnet was intended for catching bream and salmon , about 30 m long and 1.7 m high. These Mesolithic finds date from 7000 to 6000 BC. Chr.
literature
- Emil Hoffmann: Lexicon of the Stone Age (= Beck'sche series. Vol. 1325). Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-42125-3 .