In the Stone Age period the British Isles was joined to northern Europe and Scandenavia by a single land mass. Massive tsunamis caused by land slides drowned this land mass known as Doggerland.
New research suggests that climate change, not a tsunami, doomed the now-submerged territory of Doggerland
The following two maps will be discussed in more detail in a later post, but in the meantime I thought that I would share them both as items of interest in their own right. Both were initially created for and published in my The Origins of Louth: Archaeology and History in East Lincolnshire, 400,000 BC–AD 1086, but are presented here in full colour. The two maps together depict Mesolithic Doggerland. The first depicts the extent of Doggerland during the Younger Dryas period, around 10,000 BC, alongside suggested reindeer migration routes across this landscape. The second shows the final drowning of Doggerland as the sea level gradually rose after the end of the last 'Ice Age', from the perspective of Lincolnshire and the Fens. With regard to the latter, I particularly like how the shape of Lincolnshire emerges as the land floods over the millennia! You can click both maps to access larger-scale versions of the images. Suggested reindeer migration routes and the extent of Doggerland about 12,000 years ago at the end of the last glacial era (drawn by C. R. Green for Origins of Louth, based on Barton, 2005 and Shennan et al, 2000, with permission). Ahrensburgian tanged points, or arrow tips, of this period have been found in north Lincolnshire, which are identical to finds associated with reindeer hunting in northern Germany then. The last stages in the drowning of Mesolithic Doggerland, from the perspective of Lincolnshire and the Fens (drawn by C. R. Green for Origin of Louth, based on Shennan et al, 2000, with permission). Louth is marked to help in understanding the changes; darker blue indicates areas permanently under water, light blue areas flooded by the tides and low-lying marshland. The content of this page, including any original illustrations, is Copyright © Caitlin R. Green, 2014, All Rights Reserved, and should not be used without permission.
Doggerland is a submerged land mass beneath what is now the North Sea, that once connected Britain to continental Europe. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News
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For decades North Sea boatmen have been dragging up traces of a vanished world in their nets. Now archaeologists are asking a timely question: What happens to people as their homeland disappears beneath a rising tide?
Justina Hart introduces her poem about prehistoric events that drowned Doggerland and made Britain an island, and how her research fed the creative process.
In the Stone Age period the British Isles was joined to northern Europe and Scandenavia by a single land mass. Massive tsunamis caused by land slides drowned this land mass known as Doggerland.
In de tentoonstelling Doggerland maakt jong en oud een ongekende tijdreis van een miljoen jaar naar een verdwenen prehistorische wereld in de Noordzee.
Post 681 Doggerland. No, nothing to do with illegal and salacious midnight car park encounters. That a… erm, that a – friend – told, me, about. Ahem. No, Doggerland was a land bridge, a vast …
When scientists from Imperial College released a simulation of a tsunami, triggered by a vast undersea landslide at Storrega off the coast of Norway around 6000 BC, it probably came as a surprise to many…
Scientists suggest parts of expanse that once connected Britain to mainland Europe survived waves and had settlements
Wessex Archaeology working for Vattenfall, the Swedish energy group developing Norfolk’s largest offshore wind farms, has recovered unique evidence in the North Sea which is hoped will tell a more detailed story of ‘Doggerland’, the submerged landscape which was flooded more than 8,000 years ago.
When scientists from Imperial College released a simulation of a tsunami, triggered by a vast undersea landslide at Storrega off the coast of Norway around 6000 BC, it probably came as a surprise to many…
Have you ever heard about Doggerland – The Lost Land of Europe? It is actually a region that has a very rich history .... READ MORE
Location of last remains of Doggerland before it disappeared 7000 years ago.
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Doggerland is a submerged land mass beneath what is now the North Sea, that once connected Britain to continental Europe. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News
In the Stone Age period the British Isles was joined to northern Europe and Scandenavia by a single land mass. Massive tsunamis caused by land slides drowned this land mass known as Doggerland.
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So you think climate change is new? You must have not heard of the times when people walked from London to Amsterdam.
A team of archeologists at the University of Bradford in England has embarked on a massive undertaking — and it's one that might make Indiana Jones a bit jealous. They intend on recreating a 3-D model of Doggerland, a country, which, for the past…
In the Stone Age period the British Isles was joined to northern Europe and Scandenavia by a single land mass. Massive tsunamis caused by land slides drowned this land mass known as Doggerland.
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A poetic and fascinating exploration of life on Doggerland, the terrain that connected Britain with mainland Europe before seal level rises
Diver off the coast of Norfolk finds an underwater forest believed to be part of Doggerland, a sunken land mass that once connected England and Europe.
In recent posts we have been looking at the west and south of the UK, and trying to work out how eustatic and isostatic factors might have combined to create the features that we can recognize today -- either in the landscape or in sediment sequences. But what about the east, and the area now submerged beneath the North Sea? Can we learn anything from the Holocene history of this area that might help us to reconstruct the events before, during and after the Anglian Glaciation? Above is a pseudo-satellite image of what the landscape might have looked like c 10,000 years ago. Then comes the following sequence, with reconstructions for c 9,000 BP and 7,000 BP, showing a gradual marine transgression linked to the Holocene sea-level rise: Acknowledgement to BJ Coles and SE Rouillard and others. There is considerable doubt about where these shorelines were at particular dates BP, for the obvious reason that the evidence is somewhat difficult to get at! Bones and artifacts dating from the Palaeolithic and the Mesolithic have been dragged up from the bottom, for the most part in trawl nets. The highest part of the Dogger Bank today is about 15m below current sea-level, and Gaffney and various others have suggested that the final submergence of the highest point in this lost landscape occurred after Mesolithic times, maybe around 6,000 years ago. (Some authorities think that the submergence was earlier, around 8,500 years BP.) If the final submergence was around 6,000 BP, sea-level will have been maybe 6 - 8 m lower than it is today. The subsequent deeper submergence of most of this lost landscape is ascribed to the gradual isostatic depression of the North Sea Basin at a rate of maybe 1m per millennium. This all sounds logical enough, but what interests me is the matter of glacio-isostatic depression associated with the Devensian glaciation. None of the above maps take any account of isostatic factors, and that is a major defect in the theory. If we are to believe the maps showing the extent of Devensian glacier ice over the UK, then at least a part (and maybe all) of Doggerland would have been glaciated around 20,000 years ago, with substantial isostatic depression of the crust in the North Sea basin. So did the sea flood right in across this depressed area when the ice melted away, to become dry land again later as isostatic uplift rates outstripped eustatic sea-level rise rates? Interesting questions, still to be answered. In the drill holes put down by the oil companies during their oil explorations, I wonder if there is a layer of marine sediments BENEATH the soils, peats and other sediments associated with the mysterious lost land of Doggerland?
Research has modelled in detail a historic and deadly tsunami. The most accurate computer models suggest it devastated landmasses.
Zwischen England und Mitteleuropa ragte einst Doggerland empor. Vor rund 8000 Jahren versank das Eiland. Besiegelte ein Tsunami sein Schicksal?
