Buried under the harsh landscape of the Karst Plateau, located on the border between Slovenia and Italy, are four huge stone structures which could revolutionise what we know about Europe in ancient times. The four huge structures were found thanks to modern ALS and LiDAR technology, revealing the existence of gigantic cone-shaped limestone walls that open into hidden pits where wild animals such as red deer could be caught alive. This discovery, recently detailed in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) titled ‘ Prehistoric hunting megastructures in the Adriatic hinterland ’, is considered to be the oldest large-scale system of animal traps known in Europe so far.
