The Sinking of Doggerland: Europe's Lost Atlantis

Doggerland was a now-submerged landmass that once connected Britain to continental Europe, roughly the size of modern Britain. During the last Ice Age, when sea levels were lower, this fertile plain supported Mesolithic human communities alongside diverse wildlife, including mammoths and deer. As the Ice Age ended around 11,700 years ago, rising temperatures melted ice sheets, gradually flooding this landscape. The final catastrophic event came around 6200 BCE with the Storegga Slide, an underwater landslide that triggered a devastating tsunami, accelerating Doggerland's complete submersion. Modern archaeological investigations have employed cutting-edge technology to map this lost world, revealing complex river systems, hills, and settlement sites beneath the North Sea. Artifacts like worked flints, bone tools, and a sophisticated 11,000-year-old harpoon provide tangible evidence of human presence. Doggerland's story has gained renewed relevance in our era of climate change, serving as a historical parallel to today's coastal challenges, though with the crucial difference that modern sea level rise is occurring at an unprecedented, human-accelerated pace.

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