Landmass currently beneath the North Sea that connected the British Isles to mainland Europe
A map showing the hypothetical extent of Doggerland (c. 10,000 BCE), which connected Great Britain and continental Europe
Doggerland was an area of land in Northern Europe, now submerged beneath the North Sea, that connected Britain to continental Europe. It was repeatedly exposed at various times during the Pleistocene epoch due to the lowering of sea levels during glacial periods. It was last flooded by rising sea levels around 6500–6200 BCE. The flooded land is known as the Dogger Littoral.[1] Geological surveys have suggested that it stretched from what is now the east coast of Great Britain to what is now the Netherlands, the western coast of Germany and the Danish peninsula of Jutland.[2] It was probably a rich habitat with human habitation in the Mesolithic period,[3] although rising sea levels gradually reduced it to low-lying islands before its final submergence, possibly following a tsunami caused by the Storegga Slide.[4] Doggerland was named after the Dogger Bank, which in turn was named after 17th-century Dutch fishing boats called doggers.[5]
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 since dragged up remains of mammoths, lions and other animals, and a few prehistoric tools and weapons.[6]
As of 2020[update] international teams are continuing a two-year investigation into the submerged landscape of Doggerland using new and traditional archaeo-geophysical techniques, computer simulation, and molecular biology. Evidence gathered allows study of past environments, ecological change, and human transition from hunter-gatherer to farming communities.[7]
^Bob Yirka (2 December 2020). "Sediment cores from Dogger Littoral suggest Dogger Island survived ancient tsunami". phys.org. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
^"The Doggerland Project", University of Exeter Department of Archaeology
^Patterson, W, "Coastal Catastrophe" (paleoclimate research document), University of Saskatchewan Archived 9 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine
^Cite error: The named reference bbc010514 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"Dogger Bank" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 08 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 380 to 381.
^White, Mark J. (24 November 2006). "Things to do in Doggerland when you're dead: Surviving OIS3 at the northwesternmost fringe of Middle Palaeolithic Europe" (PDF). World Archaeology. 38 (4): 547–575. doi:10.1080/00438240600963031. S2CID 51729868.
^"The first archaeological artefacts found during the search for lost prehistoric settlements in the North Sea". University of Bradford. 11 June 2019. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
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