NEOLITHIC LIFE on Doggerland?

Recent media headlines in the wake of the publication of a paper examining the possible real-world process of Doggerland in the millennia after the tsunami caused by Storegga Slide 8,000 years ago, have been hinting that evidence for life on Doggerland after that time has been discovered.

Not so fast we say!

We have some words to say about how the media have been reporting this and give an insight into the real story behind what has actually been discovered.

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[woofbarkyap]

I'll never forget discovering the the Thames and the Rhine are the same river 😃

[MossyMozart]

I like show's logo very much. It explains and is eye-catching with just the right amount of abstraction. The designer did an excellent job.

[KokowaSarunoKuniDesu]

Well the thing abou tsunamis is that they come in and then they go out again. Tsunamis as such do not cause sea level rise.

[caroletomlinson]

My interest in Doggerland stems from what seems to have been a significant sea level rise—and consequent effect on the undersea landslide that caused the tsunami—that occurred when the receding Laurentide ice sheet finally fell into Hudson Bay in North America ~8000 years ago. One big melting ice mass drained into the Atlantic Ocean when that happened. Thanks for this flash.

[cyan]

I really enjoyed this video, as I've been interested in this subject for many years. I am American, and one of my ancestors came from Nord Frisia on the west coast of Schleswig. One of these people died in the Burchardi flood in 1634, he was living in Tonning, at the time it was inundated causing much destruction and loss of life. This was just one of many floods to ravage the Frisian coast. If you look at Roman maps, they show a completely different coastline, and Heligoland as a large island with many towns and pagan shrines. I'm sure many of the people who escaped went to the coast of England to live in the trading towns the had connections with.
It just makes me wonder if the people of Doggerland went through the same thing, century after century. Where did they go, east and west? The language closest to English is in fact Frisian, not Saxon.
I also thing post glacial land subsidence also strongly contributed to the sinking of Doggerland. Would rising sea levels also cause the water table to rise causing underlying strata to destabilize and collapse into the fractures in the rock below the island?
I would seriously love to see much more exploration and underwater excavations of Doggerland! Could it be some sort of mutual ancestral homeland of the people surrounding the North Sea? Hmmm
Thank you again for you wonderful channel!!

[ellen]

Wasn't there a Time Team about Doggerland quite a while back? It was something with Tony Robinson presenting it, and there were artifacts shown that had been pulled up by fishermen, things that were caught in their nets.

[mariansmith]

Another thing it tells us, or reminds us is the fact that, until the seas rose, ice age people could travel very easily across that area. In fact, not much trouble to travel by boat even after searise.

[differous]

"It's just been a mammoth task" [13:46] The tsunami may not have been the end of Doggerland but, presumably, it's what ended the mammoths who's remains get dredged from the sea floor.

[williamfluit]

Thanks for covering a super fascinating topic! Amazing in so many ways.

[lindasue]

Thank goodness the ending wasn't incriminating 😂 I'm glad you didn't edit it out 😁

[amethyst]

I just think it's cool that there was a land mass that has went through all sorts of changes, and how it affected the people and animals in the area at the time. Rising water, than a tsunami makes more logical sense to me (granted I am a hobbyist and not a professional), than just one big tsunami. Thankyou for sharing. Between work and kids' school, I had to take two days to watch a 20 minute video with multiple breaks and back tracking so I HOPE I have the right end of the stick.😂

[woofbarkyap]

I'd never heard of a tsunami until this last few weeks. I read the original report and it seemed to suggest a gradual rise over a few years

[roddixon]

Thanks, look forward to the full story. I would also be interested to hear any views you have on the Black Sea. The possible civilization that was lost due the water rising, change from fresh to salt water, other geologic problems and any migrations it may have triggered.

[francismarcelvos]

Looking to the future, when a similar event will happen with Greenland releasing another tsunami, this will reshape the coastlines of Western Europe again. Being Dutch, I would expect most of the low countries to disappear.

[rifraffer]

For more than ten years Dutch ficherman are ploughing
the botum of the northsea and they catsfich and a lot of bones.
old stuf like Mammooth.will that have influenson the data?

[elizabethmcglothlin]

So neolithic life wasn't washed away in a tsunami, it retreated slowly from sea level rise!

[filmalarmxxl]

Thank you! So exiting to hear what information this science group may will discover: DNA from the past from under the wild North Sea! With best wishes from Germany lower saxony. Sea level rising right now. Maybe as fast as in past times, maybe not. The government just decided that it is necessary to level up all Deiche by the North Sea.

[KatMcKiv]

It's safer these days to put a? At the end of everything lol, keep yourselves right.

[MrGerryodonothing]

The people of Doggerland (as you refer to it?) were Homo Sapiens of whatever advancement and not, as you say "Human Beings". The Human being is merely an indentured slave, subject, serf of Rome and its Allies and it is unfair in the extreme to pidgeon-hole anyone pre Anno Domini 325 by that tag. Facts are facts and facts should be adhered to. Those people were part of my heritage and your's and they were certainly not the Human Being, Subject, Slave invention of Rome.

[chronosschiron]

what if dogger island was ATLANTIS anyone thought that way yet