Ever heard
of Doggerland? Well, here’s some information about it. From Wikipedia and cited
sources:
Doggerland
was an area of land in Northern Europe, now submerged beneath the southern
North Sea. This region was repeatedly exposed at various times during the
Pleistocene epoch due to the lowering of sea levels during glacial periods,
though the term "Doggerland" is generally specifically used for this
region during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene. During the early
Holocene, the exposed land area of Doggerland stretched across the region
between what is now the east coast of Great Britain, the Netherlands, the
western coast of Germany and the Danish peninsula of Jutland. Between 10,000
and 7,000 years ago, Doggerland was inundated by rising sea levels,
disintegrating initially into a series of low-lying islands before submerging
completely. The impact of the tsunami generated by the Storegga underwater
landslide c. 8200 years ago on Doggerland is controversial. The flooded land is
known as the Dogger Littoral. Doggerland was named after the Dogger Bank—which
in turn was named after 17th-century Dutch fishing boats called doggers—which
formed a highland region that became submerged later than the rest of
Doggerland.
The
archaeological potential of the area was first identified in the early 20th
century, and interest intensified in 1931 when a fishing trawler operating east
of the Wash dragged up a barbed antler point that was subsequently dated to a
time when the area was tundra. Vessels have since dragged up remains of
mammoths, lions and other animals, and a few prehistoric tools and weapons.
Most archaeological evidence of human habitation dates to the Mesolithic period
during the early Holocene.
As of
2020, international teams are continuing a two-year investigation into the
submerged landscape of Doggerland using new and traditional archaeogeophysical
techniques, computer simulation, and molecular biology. Evidence gathered
allows the study of past environments, ecological change, and human transition
from hunter-gatherers to farming communities.
As ice
melted at the end of the last glacial period of the current ice age, sea levels
rose and the land began to tilt in an isostatic adjustment as the huge weight
of ice lessened. Doggerland eventually became submerged, cutting off what was
previously the British peninsula from the European mainland by around 6500 BCE.
The Dogger Bank, an upland area of Doggerland, remained an island until at
least 5000 BCE. Key stages are now believed to have included the gradual
evolution of a large tidal bay between eastern England and Dogger Bank by 9000
BCE and a rapid sea level rise thereafter, leading to Dogger Bank becoming an
island and Britain becoming physically disconnected from the continent.
A recent
hypothesis suggests that around 6200 BCE much of the remaining coastal land was
flooded by a tsunami caused by a submarine landslide off the coast of Norway
known as the Storegga Slide. This suggests “that the Storegga Slide tsunami
would have had a catastrophic impact on the contemporary coastal Mesolithic
population . . . Britain finally became separated from the continent and in
cultural terms, the Mesolithic there goes its own way.” It is estimated that up
to a quarter of the Mesolithic population of Britain lost their lives. A study published in 2014 suggested that the
only remaining parts of Doggerland at the time of the Storegga Slide were
low-lying islands, but supported the view that the area had been abandoned at
about the same time as the tsunamis.
Another
view speculates that the Storegga tsunami devastated Doggerland, but then ebbed
back into the sea, and that later Lake Agassiz (in North America) burst,
releasing so much fresh water that sea levels rose over about two years to
flood much of Doggerland and making Great Britain an island. The difference in
the distribution of broken shells between lower-lying and high-lying parts of
the area also suggests the survival of land after the Storegga tsunami.
Here’s an
idea:
What if a
highly advanced civilization—I mean highly advanced, hundreds of years ahead of
us—existed in the Doggerland region?
What if that
civilization was the basis for the Atlantis legend?
In the
Zedverse, Earth/Tehrani/Terra has a co-orbital twin, another Earth or
Counter-Earth called Tellus. Tellus is in a similar Ice Age that gripped our
Earth thousands of years ago.
Yes, the
Doggerland region exists on Tellus . . . along with other mysteries.
Oh.
One more
thing: Tellus has three moons.
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