Doggerland: Lost World under the North Sea

Doggerland was a prehistoric landscape that covered a vast area and was home to early hominids, ice ages, woolly mammoths, rhinoceroses, horses, reindeer, and Neanderthals. It was also the site of the first modern humans and the famous Leman-and-Ower-Banks spearhead. However, the Mesolithic hunter-gatherers were increasingly confronted with climate change and rising sea levels, leading to their disappearance around 6150 BC. This book brings this vanished world back to the surface.

Format: Hardback
Length: 210 pages
Publication date: 08 September 2022
Publisher: Sidestone Press

Doggerland, a prehistoric landscape that spans almost a million years of human habitation, is one of the most important but least known major archaeological sites in Europe. Located along the North Sea, Doggerland was a vast lost world that lay dry for most of its existence. It was the site of early hominid footprints, ice ages, and the successful Neanderthals who hunted woolly mammoths, rhinoceroses, horses, and reindeer. The first modern humans also left their traces here, including the famous Leman-and-Ower-Banks spearhead and some of the oldest art in the region. However, with the onset of the Holocene, Doggerland's inhabitants were increasingly confronted with climate change and rising sea levels, just as we are today. The Mesolithic hunter-gatherers lived in a rich, but constantly changing world, but ongoing submergence and a huge tsunami around 6150 BC marked the beginning of the end. A few centuries later, the last islands disappeared under the waves, and with them, the story of Doggerland was lost in time. This book brings this vanished world back to the surface, providing a fascinating glimpse into our past and the challenges we face today.

Dimension: 254 x 178 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789464261141