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Doggerland submitted by dodomad : An interactive game for the Royal Society Drowned landscapes Exhibit. The game allows people to move around the landscape and at the end of a timed session, pick a location for the best survival location (food, resources, safety) to build a village. After that we’ll send in the calamities and the more the village comes out unscathed, the higher the points will be. With thanks to Drow... (Vote or comment on this photo)
At the height of the last Ice Age, Doggerland was dry and stretched from the present east coast of Britain and the present coasts of The Netherlands, Denmark and North Germany. Thus, the so-called land-bridge, was a place where people settled as the ice-sheets wasted and northwestern Europe became habitable once more. But, as the ice-sheets retreated further and sea levels rose, the North Sea encroached on the land, eventually separating the British Peninsula from the mainland.

The Doggerland Project has made use of recent geological exploration of the North Sea bed, and other sources of data, to reconstruct the former landscape and explore its cultural interpretations. The presence of the former landscapes, their changing coastlines, the process of land loss and the eventual insularity of Britain affected the inhabitants of northwestern Europe from the late Palaeolithic to the Neolithic, if not later. Three papers have been published from this project. The next stage will be to investigate possible means of underwater survey for archaeological sites, most probably around the former estuaries of Doggerland's rivers.

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Doggerland gives up its ancient secrets, free virtual tour of new exhibition by Andy B on Sunday, 01 August 2021
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The idea of a “lost Atlantis” under the North Sea connecting Britain by land to continental Europe had been imagined by HG Wells in the late 19th century, with evidence of human inhabitation of the forgotten world following in 1931 when the trawler Colinda dredged up a lump of peat containing a spear point.

But it is only now, after a decade of pioneering research and the extraordinary finds of an army of amateur archaeologists scouring the Dutch coastline for artefacts and fossils, that a major exhibition is able to offer a window into Doggerland, a vast expanse of territory submerged following a tsunami 8,000 years ago, cutting the British Isles off from modern Belgium, the Netherlands and southern Scandinavia.

The exhibition, Doggerland: Lost World in the North Sea, at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (National Museum of Antiquities) in Leiden, southern Holland, includes more than 200 objects, ranging from a deer bone in which an arrowhead is embedded, and fossils such as petrified hyena droppings and mammoth molars, to a fragment of a skull of a young male Neanderthal. Studies of the forehead bone, dredged up in 2001 off the coast of Zeeland, suggests he was a big meat eater. A small cavity behind the brow bone is believed to be a scar from a harmless subcutaneous tumour that would have been visible as a lump above his eye.
Doggerland

But while the last decade has seen a growing number of expensive scientific studies, including a recent survey of the drowned landscape by the universities of Bradford and Ghent offering further clues to the cause of its destruction, it is the work of “citizen scientists” that has produced some of the most exciting artefacts, allowing a full story now to be told, according to Dr Sasja van der Vaart-Verschoof, assistant curator of the museum’s prehistory department.

Read more at
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/01/doggerland-lost-atlantis-of-the-north-sea-gives-up-its-ancient-secrets

A virtual tour of the exhibition Doggerland: Lost World in the North Sea, which will be physically available to visit until 31 October, can be viewed on the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden’s YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3PzgSJT1bU

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Re: Doggerland by whicham on Wednesday, 28 March 2018
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This is a very late addition, it being 2018. However, I today happened to see photos of a submerged forest from 10,000 years ago, under the North Sea. What struck me was that one of the photos showed a massive fallen tree, which looked remarkably like a huge piece of wood that I found on a local beach some years ago. The wood I found was about 8 feet x 5 feet, or 240 cm x 150, with a visible depth (though part could have been buried in sand) of 8 inches, or 20cm. It was all one piece, and blackened by salt water immersion. The surface was slightly softened, though picking at it showed the rest to be reasonably hard. I could see no sign of joins, and it was clearly extremely old.

I’d previously found small pieces of similar appearance, say less than a foot/30cm long and maybe 6-8 inches/15-20cm wide. But this was massive. I had no camera with me, and when I was able to return to the beach the following day, there was no sign of it, despite it being halfway up between low and high tide marks. The sand is always damp, as moisture from the 2000 foot/630 odd metres Blackcombe Fell (southwest Cumbria) drains down onto the beach, but despite that, the sand levels rise and fall considerably depending upon the weather. The wood I found looked far too heavy to float, and I suppose it could have been uncovered and then covered again by sand by the next day, although the weather was clement.

I wondered at the time if it was a man-made fishing platform, such as is found elsewhere around various lakes and coasts, and sunk because of rising sea levels. We’re on the northwest coast of the UK, in Cumbria, and I don’t know if the land extended towards the Isle of Man in earlier times. We certainly have a fair amount of erosion from waves, eating away at fields and property.

If anyone has suggestions as to what the wood might be, and what might have happened to it when it appeared and disappeared, I’d be pleased to hear. Has anyone else seen anything like it on the coast?
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Ancient forest lost beneath the North Sea is uncovered by bat400 on Sunday, 22 May 2016
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Archaeologists believe the forest was part of Doggerland, an ancient stretch of land which connected UK to Europe

The region would have been gradually flooded by melting glacial ice and geological activity over hundreds of years

But experts say the ancient forest on the Northumberland coastline has been perfectly preserved in a layer of peat

Archaeologists say that in addition to the forest remnants they have uncovered human footprints from early settlers



Article courtesy Daily Mail :

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3593219/North-sea-reveals-7-000-year-old-human-footprints-ancient-forest-Woodland-stretched-Denmark-covered-ocean.html
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The Catastrophic Final Flooding of Doggerland by the Storegga Slide Tsunami by Andy B on Thursday, 07 April 2016
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The Catastrophic Final Flooding of Doggerland by the Storegga Slide Tsunami

Bernhard Weninger, Rick Schulting, Marcel Bradtmöller, Lee Clare, Mark Collard,Kevan Edinborough, Johanna Hilpert, Olaf Jöris, Marcel Niekus, Eelco J. Rohling, Bernd Wagner

Around 8200 cal BP, large parts of the now submerged North Sea continental shelf (‘Dog- gerland’) were catastrophically flooded by the Storegga Slide tsunami, one of the largest tsunamis known for the Holocene, which was generated on the Norwegian coastal margin by a submarine landslide. In the present paper, we derive a precise calendric date for the Storegga Slide tsunami, usethis date for reconstruction of contemporary coastlines in the North Sea in relation to rapidly rising sea-levels, and discuss the potential effects of the tsunami on the contemporaneous Mesolithic popula-tion. One main result of this study is an unexpectedly high tsunami impact assigned to the westernregions of Jutland

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https://www.academia.edu/437214/The_Catastrophic_Final_Flooding_of_Doggerland_by_the_Storegga_Slide_Tsunami
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The catastrophic final flooding of Doggerlandby the Storegga Slide tsunami by Andy B on Thursday, 30 July 2015
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The catastrophic final flooding of Doggerlandby the Storegga Slide tsunami by Bernhard Weninger, Rick Schulting, Marcel Bradtmöller, Lee Clare, Mark Collard, Kevan Edinborough, Johanna Hilpert, Olaf Jöris, Marcel Niekus, Eelco J. Rohling, Bernd Wagner

Around 8200 calBP, large parts of the now submerged North Sea continental shelf (‘Dog- gerland’) were catastrophically flooded by the Storegga Slide tsunami, one of the largest tsunamis known for the Holocene, which was generated on the Norwegian coastal margin by a submarine landslide. In the present paper, we derive a precise calendric date for the Storegga Slide tsunami, use this date for reconstruction of contemporary coastlines in the North Sea in relation to rapidly rising sea-levels, and discuss the potential effects of the tsunami on the contemporaneous Mesolithic popula-tion. One main result of this study is an unexpectedly high tsunami impact assigned to the western regions of Jutland.

https://www.academia.edu/437214/The_Catastrophic_Final_Flooding_of_Doggerland_by_the_Storegga_Slide_Tsunami
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In Sight of Doggerland: From speculative survey to landscape exploration by Andy B on Tuesday, 24 March 2015
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In Sight of Doggerland: From speculative survey to landscape exploration by Simon Fitch, Vince Gaffney and Ken Thomson

The North Sea has long been known by archaeologists as an area of Mesolithic occupation, and has even been argued as the heartland of the Mesolithic in North Western Europe. Yet this area remains effectively terra incognita to archaeologists, and the nature of its occupation, tantalisingly elusive. The submergence of this landscape has therefore effectively hindered archaeological research into this vitally important region. Yet this region contains one of the most detailed and comprehensive records of the Late Quaternary and Holocene, and its preserved sedimentary successions represent a mine of information that remains untapped by archaeologists. However the lack of direct data pertaining to this region results in all previous maps of the prehistoric landscape being at best hypothetical.

This paper will present results which illustrate that through the utilisation of spatially extensive oil industry data, the recovery information pertaining to the actual Mesolithic landscape of the North Sea is now possible. This information reveals the diversity of this landscape and shows that much greater consideration of submerged Mesolithic landscapes is now required of archaeologists. Whilst the study of such landscapes is in its infancy, the availability of such information offers the possibility of transforming how we interpret traditional terrestrial data and its relationship to the larger European Mesolithic.

Full paper at
http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue22/3/index.html
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https://www.academia.edu/1215871/In_Sight_of_Doggerland_From_speculative_survey_to_landscape_exploration
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Mapping Doggerland: the Mesolithic Landscapes of the Southern North Sea by Andy B on Tuesday, 24 March 2015
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Mapping Doggerland: the Mesolithic Landscapes of the Southern North Sea

Edited by Vincent Gaffney, Kenneth Thomson and Simon Fitch
A project funded by the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund and administered by English Heritage

https://www.academia.edu/2480682/Mapping_Doggerland_the_Mesolithic_Landscapes_of_the_Southern_North_Sea
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Doggerland Catastrophy and Norway Subsea Landslide by bat400 on Friday, 15 August 2014
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A prehistoric "Atlantis" in the North Sea may have been abandoned after being hit by a 5m tsunami 8,200 years ago. The wave was generated by a catastrophic subsea landslide off the coast of Norway. An analysis suggests the tsunami over-ran Doggerland, a low-lying landmass that has since vanished beneath the waves.

"It was abandoned by Mesolithic tribes about 8,000 years ago, which is when the Storegga slide happened," said Dr Jon Hill (Imperial College London.) The wave could have wiped out the last people to occupy this island.

The research has been submitted to the journal Ocean Modelling and is being presented at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna this week.

Dr Hill and his Imperial-based colleagues Gareth Collins, Alexandros Avdis, Stephan Kramer and Matthew Piggott used computer simulations to explore the likely effects of the Norwegian landslide.

He told BBC News: "We were the first ever group to model the Storegga tsunami with Doggerland in place. Previous studies have used the modern bathymetry (ocean depth)." As such, the study gives the most detailed insight yet into the likely impacts of the huge landslip and its associated tsunami wave on this lost landmass.

During the last Ice Age, sea levels were much lower; at its maximum extent Doggerland connected Britain to mainland Europe. It was possible for human hunters to walk from what is now northern Germany across to East Anglia.

But from 20,000 years ago, sea levels began to rise, gradually flooding the vast landscape.

By around 10,000 years ago, the area would still have been one of the richest areas for hunting, fishing and fowling in Europe.

A large freshwater basin occupied the centre of Doggerland, fed by the River Thames from the west and by the Rhine in the east. Its lagoons, marshes and mudflats would have been a haven for wildlife.

But 2,000 years later, Doggerland had become a low-lying, marshy island covering an area about the size of Wales.

The nets of North Sea fishing boats have pulled up a wealth of prehistoric bones belonging to the animals that once roamed this prehistoric "Garden of Eden".

But the waters have also given up a smaller cache of ancient human remains and artefacts from which scientists have been able to obtain radiocarbon dates.

And they show that none of these relics of Mesolithic habitation on Doggerland occur later than the time of the tsunami.

The Storegga slide involved the collapse of some 3,000 cubic km of sediment. "If you took that sediment and laid it over Scotland, it would cover it to a depth of 8m," said Dr Hill.
Given that the majority of Doggerland was by this time less than 5m in height, it would have experienced widespread flooding.

"It is therefore plausible that the Storegga slide was indeed the cause of the abandonment of Doggerland in the Mesolithic," the team writes in their Ocean Modelling paper.

Dr Hill told BBC News: "The impact on anyone who was living on Doggerland at the time would have been massive - comparable to the Japanese tsunami of 2011."

But Bernhard Weninger (University of Cologne) suspects that Doggerland had already been vacated by the time of the Storegga slide.

"There may have been a few people coming with boats to fish, but I doubt it was continuously settled," he explained. "I think it was so wet by this time that the good days of Doggerland were already gone."

Thanks to coldrum for the link. For more, see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news.
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    Re: Doggerland Catastrophy and Norway Subsea Landslide by sem on Wednesday, 20 August 2014
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    Hi Bat
    The more I look into this period of history the more I think of it as the defining moment for "Britain" and the beginning of agriculture here. Agriculture began in the near east 4000yrs previously but the destruction of the "landbridge" forced it. No more herd migration and no more hunting following the herds!
    As usual Wales is the poor relation in research such as this. We had a landbridge to Ireland 12000-10000BP and a Bristol Channel that was dry land until the Storrega Slide.


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      Re: Doggerland Catastrophy and Norway Subsea Landslide by davidmorgan on Wednesday, 20 August 2014
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      It seems that Doggerland was already an island when this event occurred, so no migrating herds. And it wasn't until at least 1000 years later that agriculture arrived in Britain.
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Re: Doggerland by Tuatha on Monday, 16 July 2012
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rimjimslim - my thoughts exactly, imagine also how this changes the influences and societies which DID exist at the time and the psychological changes wrought when the sea began to engluf. Quite amazing.
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Interviews with the archaeologists behind 'Drowned Landscapes' by Andy B on Saturday, 14 July 2012
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Video interviews with the archaeologists behind 'Drowned Landscapes':

Caroline Wickham-Jones
Richard Bates
Vince Gaffney
Martin Bates

http://sse.royalsociety.org/2012/exhibits/drowned-landscapes/scientists/
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Game of Mesolithic Survival shown at Royal Society's Drowned Landscapes exhibition by Andy B on Saturday, 14 July 2012
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Dr Eugene Ch'ng has developed a touch table survival game for the Royal Society's Drowned Landscapes exhibition. He writes: The game allows people to move around the landscape and at the end of a timed session, pick a location for the best survival location in terms of food, resources and safety to build a village. After that we send in the calamities - water rising, bad weather etc and the more the village comes out unscathed, the higher the points will be.

The game is simple and straightforward and has been designed to make the game accessible to the widest range of players. Internally it has algorithums for the building of villages, agent navigation, scoring and a leaderboard.

Here are some videos





More on their blog
http://drowned-landscapes.tumblr.com/
and at Dr Ch'ng's pages
http://www.opennature.org/

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Drowned Landscapes on display at The Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2012 by Andy B on Thursday, 12 July 2012
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A huge undersea world at bottom of North sea swallowed by the sea in 6500BC

'Britain's Atlantis' - a hidden underwater world swallowed by the North Sea - has been discovered by divers working with science teams from the University of St Andrews.

Doggerland, a huge area of dry land that stretched from Scotland to Denmark was slowly submerged by water between 18,000 BC and 5,500 BC.

Divers from oil companies have found remains of a 'drowned world' with a population of tens of thousands - which might once have been the 'real heartland' of Europe.

A team of climatologists, archaeologists and geophysicists has now mapped the area using new data from oil companies - and revealed the full extent of a 'lost land' once roamed by mammoths.

Organised by Dr Richard Bates of the Department of Earth Sciences at St Andrews, the Drowned Landscapes exhibit reveals the human story behind Doggerland, a now submerged area of the North Sea that was once larger than many modern European countries.

A new interactive display at The Royal Society examines the lost landscape of Doggerland and includes artefacts from various times represented by the exhibit - from pieces of flint used by humans as tools to the animals that also inhabited these lands.

This exhibit explores those drowned landscapes around the UK and shows how they are being rediscovered through pioneering scientific research. It reveals their human story through the artefacts left by the people - a story of a dramatic past that featured lost lands, devastating tsunamis and massive climate change. These were the challenges that our ancestors met and that we face once more today.

Drowned Landscapes was on display at The Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2012 at the Royal Society in London.

For further information on the exhibit, visit:
http://sse.royalsociety.org/2012/exhibits/drowned-landscapes/
and see updates on their Blog
http://drowned-landscapes.tumblr.com/
and Facebook page
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Europes-Lost-World/198528573599200

Read more about Doggerland, with lots of images at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2167731/Britains-Atlantis-North-sea--huge-undersea-kingdom-swamped-tsunami-5-500-years-ago.html
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    Agent-Based Modelling of Mesolithic Society: A Pilot Study by Andy B on Thursday, 12 July 2012
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    In view of the greater need to map Doggerland, including the survival and settlement patterns of early hunter-gatherer communities, a pilot study for testing agents as virtual humans is being conducted. At present, initial ground work has been laid for survival and settlement behaviours such as the ability of the agents to discover resources in the landscape and to identify settlement areas based on resources and the suitability of the environment (e.g., proximity to water). The agents have reasoning capability and memories that fade with the passing of time. They are able to identify object ownerships and family or strangers via tagging, build houses, gather food, build fires, burn clearings, and react to environmental changes (e.g., temperature). In the near future agent roles, cooperation, preferences, and culture will be investigated as well as hunting behaviours. The figure below illustrates the agent model with visualisations from the pilot simulation.

    Video showing the Visual and Spatial Technologies Centre's work on agent-based modelling in a real-time interactive virtual environment. VISTA at the University of Birmingham http://vista.bham.ac.uk

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Re: Doggerland by rimjimslim on Monday, 05 September 2011
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If the climate of Europe had warmed up by just 2 or 3 degrees Celsius less after the last Ice Age, Doggerland would still be here today playing its part in world affairs - but totally changing our history as we know it!

If Doggerland Had Not Drowned
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Re: Doggerland by Doggerland on Wednesday, 27 October 2010
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I’m working on a project to mark out Doggerland on a modern map of Europe. It's based on the idea that any reclaimed land around the North Sea shouldn't belong to the various countries it is currently in - but rather to Doggerland.

I aim to draw a new map of Europe with Doggerland marked as its own "country" with the North Sea in the middle of it.

There are some scans of Bryony Coles's hypothetical Doggerland maps on my site. Have a look at the project - Doggerland

Get in touch if you can help or would like to get involved. Contact details are on my site. http://doggerland.net
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Stone Age could complicate North Sea wind farm plans by Andy B on Wednesday, 31 March 2010
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Britain pushing huge N.Sea expansion of offshore wind
Submerged "Doggerland" may hide archaeological sites

Energy firms taking part in a North Sea boom for offshore wind farms will have to watch out for remains of Stone Age villages submerged for thousands of years, an expert said on Tuesday.

A region dubbed "Doggerland" connected Britain to mainland Europe across what is now the southern North Sea until about 8,000 years ago, when seas rose after the last Ice Age.

It is now the site of a planned vast expansion of offshore wind power by 2020 to help combat climate change.

"We've begun to think about how we'd tackle any archaeological finds," Adrian Fox, supply chain manager of the Crown Estate which leases land off Britain, told Reuters during a conference in Oslo about offshore wind.

He said planners were trying to consider every challenge of offshore wind farming -- from upgrading port capacity to finding more specialised vessels to help install the turbines.

More at Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE62M12020100323?type=marketsNews

For more on the Offshore Wind Energy Supply Chain.
http://www.thecrownestate.co.uk/our_portfolio/marine/offshore_wind_energy/supply-chain.htm

For more about underwater archaeology, The Nautical Archaeology Society.
http://www.nasportsmouth.org.uk

With thanks to Coldrum and Equinox
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Re: Doggerland by Andy B on Wednesday, 31 March 2010
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An article on Doggerland: Britain's Prehistoric Atlantis.
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