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Doggerland: The Landmass That Connected Britain To Mainland Europe Before Sinking Into The North SeaToday, the North Sea is known for its treacherous waters, oil fields, and busy shipping routes. However, just over 8,000 years ago, the area was a sprawling landmass known as Doggerland.
This story appears in the December 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. When signs of a lost world at the bottom of the North Sea first began to appear, no one wanted to believe them.
BRITAIN wasn’t always an island. At the end of the last Ice Age, it was a cold peninsula tundra on the edge of Europe. As the world warmed, this stretch of land grew flowers and forests, ...
Archaeologists at the University of Bradford have developed an interactive simulation tool to illustrate the evolution and eventual disappearance ...
An economics-based board game set in 15,000 BC might sound like a drag, but Doggerland manages to deliver a fascinating dive ...
On the other side of Britain, Doggerland was reclaimed by the North Sea in this period. In the agriculture-based societies that followed, human footprints dominate the Neolithic period and later ...
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