catching and eating fish for countless centuries, but the exact history of fishing is hard to trace because delicate hooks and rods don’t tend to last all that long.But now a team of researchers led by Antonella Pedergnana of the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Archaeological Research Institute in Germany has found a set of fishing equipment dating back an incredible 12,000 years.The earliest known civilisations date back to only about five or six thousand years ago.The 19 bone fish hooks and six carved stones, which researchers think would have been used as fishing weights, were discovered in the Jordan River Dureijay in Israel’s northern Hula Valley.“The hooks are surprisingly close to modern hooks – in size, in features (such barbs),.
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