Lost European Landmass, Doggerland

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Once upon a time not too long ago, Europe looked vastly different than what it looks like today.
The British, Scottish and Irish Isles were connected to not only mainland Europe but Scandinavia as well.
The landmass connecting them is known as Doggerland, this lush forest land was home to a variety of different animal species.
A place humans called home for hundreds of thousands of years until disaster struck, wiping away what once was.

A fact you might have never known is that up until at least 500.000 years ago the Chalk cliffs of Dover in South-East England were connected to the chalk cliffs of Calais in France which served the ancient people and animals as a land bridge.

As the interglacial period started the meltwater from this massive ice sheet created a river between the ice and the land bridge, eventually the water in the lake got so high it would overflow creating a waterfall over the land bridge and as time went by the gap where the waterfall would flow became bigger as it eroded more.

After the Elster Glaciation ended around 300.000 years ago, the Saalian Glaciation started, again an ice sheet covered the North Sea reaching even further south this time and when this started to melt it formed another lake, which would again erode and cut through the remnants of the land bridge between Dover and Calais.

Eventually approximately 130.000 years ago the Saalian ice sheet had completely melted and we entered the interglacial period of the Eemian period which lasted some 15.000 years, during this time the sea levels were between 6 and 9 meters higher than present day.
Of course as you may guess, this warm period was again followed by another glacial period, the Weichselian Glaciation which lasted from 115.000 until 11.700 years ago.
In this time period the area became a unique landscape not found on the planet since, called the Mammoth steppe. a variety of animals roamed the area, among these were Woolly Mammoths, Cave Hyena’s, Reindeer, Bison, Horses, European Cave Lions, Wolves, Brown bears, Woolly rhinoceros and Saber-Toothed Cats.

During the Last Glacial Maximum in the Weichselian some 33.000 years ago an ice sheet once again started to cover the North-Sea, around 26.500 years ago this ice sheet covered most of the British Isles, Scandinavia and parts of Northern Europe as you can see here.

The climate in north-western Europe most likely became uninhabitable for humans during this time and there are no traces of humans living here found between 27.000 and 14.500 years ago.

Around 20.000 years ago the climate started to become warmer for a while, during this period of approximately 2000 years of climate warming up, the sea level that was approximately 125 meters lower than present day started to rise.

The water from the ice sheet needed to go somewhere of course, this is still evident in the contours of the current sea bed in the North Sea, the water drainage flowed from East Anglia in England south east towards the Hoek van Holland in South-Holland the Netherlands, the water did not go across the strait of Dover as was assumed.

Disaster struck around 12.900 years ago when the Laacher See Volcano located in Germany erupted, the blast was so strong that no tree stood upright within 4 kilometres of the Volcano.

Approximately 100 years after the Laacher See Volcanic eruption 12.800 years ago, the Younger Dryas started and returned the climate to glacial conditions.

The eruption has been discussed as a possible cause for the start of the Younger Dryas, although a new improved dating of the start of the Younger Dryas published in 2021 now suggests there might have been 200 years between the eruption and the start of the Younger Dryas.

Music: Adrian von Ziegler

Sources:
Book – Doggerland Lost World in the North Sea
A multitude of Wikipedia pages of all the Time Periods
B.J. Coles (1998). Doggerland: a Speculative Survey. . Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 64, pp 45-81 doi:10.1017/
S0079497X00002176
Doggerland: the cultural dynamics of a shifting coastline
BRYONY J. COLES
Department of Archaeology, School of Geography and Archaeology, The University,
Exeter, UK

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[edit] corrected a few minor typos.

[shaunhall]

What has intrigued me most is how quickly things change in geological times.

[annother]

Now the British hold tributes to Doggerland every weekend in car parks up and down the country! ;O)

[wiretamer]

This is a wonderful introduction to the vast 'new' detailed knowledge of Northern European prehistory. It's quite a shock to learn of all the smaller regional geological periods that fill in the broader periods outlined in more general work.

I expected you to pick up the story of Doggerland shortly before its demise, but its final disappearance is only the latest in a string of dramatic changes that profoundly effected human activity in northern Europe.

Our ancestors had to learn the story of 'the flood' again and again. And these lessons were so far apart, that the previous catastrophe had most likely transformed into myth. This provides some insight into the deep non-linear amorphous relationship aboriginals across the planet have with dramatic climate change.

[kawasakikev]

WOW, that was excellent, well researched and presented and with so much information to digest, i'll have to watch it again later, thanks to Matt on the Ancient Architects Channel for pointing me in your direction, and thanks to you for uploading the video Kayleigh .

[Lookoutmedia]

this is a great channel.I love learning about Doggerland and this is the most informative video ive seen to date. Thank you Kayleigh. Great work!

[savage]

Came over from Ancient Architects. This was awesome! Great work and thank you.

[TheLostHistoryChannelTKTC]

Awesome ⚡⚡Very Educational! This wouldn't be out of place in a museum or something, SO GOOD! Loved your closing thoughts, You rock Kayleigh🔱😎⚡Hard work pays off 👍

[canthama]

I love this subject....Doggerland is an incredible area for research the ancient times....hope to see way more discoveries from this large area....thank you Kayleigh for up loading this video.

[johnhextall]

Brilliant video Kayleigh! I’ve been waiting for such a detailed summary of this period in European history for a very long time. Thank you!

[Terry.W]

This was a fascinating time in history ...imagine walking from the UK to the Netherlands ..

[OdariArt]

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[alexc.c.]

What a treat. Amazing work behind this upload. The geological changes through time are almost impossible to grasp seeing the water level change so dramatically. And so many other things above sea level today that we still can explain, like ancient megalithic cities and structures around the world. 💯

[callmefred]

Very nice video and a great inspiring conclusion! Thanks for your research & presentation.Dank u wel!

[ftoalan]

Came here through JJ's live about you and her collaborating on doggerland and i cant wait!!! Its great to see women like yourself and JJ doing this as its taking off big time keep up the good work. Just Awesome!!!

[StereoSpace]

You should look up Milankovitch Cycles. We're still in an ice age, and currently experiencing an interglacial warming period. I've also thought that the widely told flood stories are dim tribal memories of the end of the last glacial maximum, and the widespread (global) flooding that followed. Who is surprised that would be remembered and retold by so many cultures? Fascinating videos you're making. I'm really enjoying these.

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[arnowillekes]

Saw that awesome expo at our Antiquities Museum here in Leiden a few years back; especially the weird periods in between the Neanderthal and Homo Sapiens occurence and the almost modern feeling production and trade in artefacts are amazing!
Thanks for documenting this too!
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[PhoenixLyon]

You did it again, Kayleigh! This was better than a big-time history channel doc I watched a while ago. Fascinating changes to that area. Scritches to the kitties! Thx!✌🏻🐱

[RoxUniverse]

Excellent job Kayleigh, I learned a great deal by watching your video. I like how you closed by reminding us that nothing is permanent and our Earth is currently being ravaged due to human greed and ignorance. I hope that humanity can pull it together and begin to focus on natural, sustainable and clean energy in the future. Perhaps we should look more to our sun and the magnetosphere as a good place to start! Thanks for all of your hard work, research and production…🐓