Written by John Lounsbury
Until the late Stone Age, the British Isles Were Actually Not Islands at All
Once, the idea of a lost world under the sea was the stuff of legend, but now scientists are rediscovering a sunken land and piecing together the lives of the people who lived there. In Northern Europe, a huge area known as Doggerland disappeared beneath the waves thousands of years ago and has remained underwater ever since. This 18 minute video tells what is known.
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The following graphic from Wikipedia shows the progression over time of the geology and geography of what are today the British isles.
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From Wikipedia:
Doggerland was an area of land, now submerged beneath the southern North Sea, that connected Great Britain to continental Europe. It was flooded by rising sea levels around 6,500 – 6,200 BC. Geological surveys have suggested that it stretched from Britain’s east coast to the Netherlandsand the western coasts of Germany and the peninsula of Jutland.[1] It was probably a rich habitat with human habitation in the Mesolithic period,[2] although rising sea levels gradually reduced it to low-lying islands before its final submergence, possibly following a tsunami caused by the Storegga Slide.[3]
The archaeological potential of the area was first identified in the early 20th century, and interest intensified in 1931 when a fishing trawler operating east of the Wash dragged up a barbed antler point that was subsequently dated to a time when the area was tundra. Vessels have dragged up remains of mammoth, lion and other animals, as well as a few prehistoric tools and weapons.[4]
Doggerland was named in the 1990s, after the Dogger Bank, which in turn was named after the 17th century Dutch fishing boats called doggers.
From YouTube:
The sunken landmass of #Doggerland in the North Sea was once home to an estimated 100,000 people, sinking under the waves at the exact time when #Neolithic culture arrived in #AncientBritain and Scandinavia. It is my belief that this lost civilisation transformed Britain around 4000 BC. Were the people of Doggerland responsible for sites such as #Stonehenge, #LongBarrows and #CursusMonuments? Doggerland may well have been the cradle of British civilisation.
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