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I highly recommend the BBC In Our Time episode on Doggerland - it was my first introduction to the idea and I found it fascinating and very digestible
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Thanks! I'll see if I can find it on-line.
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I highly recommend the BBC In Our Time episode on Doggerland - it was my first introduction to the idea and I found it fascinating and very digestible
Indeed a good listen, thanks again. It's on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcubRlMqaEs
Here it is on the BBC web-site:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0006707
Plenty of links on there to explore.
Oliver Schick
I don't think there's much here yet--they seem to have done some underwater mapping of the (trawler-ravaged) North Sea bed--but it would be hugely interesting to know more about the nature of life in Doggerland all those millennia ago:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/dec/01/evidence-life-on-doggerland-after-devastating-tsunamis-study
Often in archaeology it's the time capsules that are the most interesting, e.g. if something collapsed and was preserved in the state it was in a long time ago and not in a constantly-updated fashion like towns lived in for thousands of years, where lots of small remnants of the past can be seen among the new, but where the whole picture of the history, and indeed how far back it goes, is obscured.
With Doggerland, there might well be such time capsules, all while considering how hugely difficult underwater archaeology is, but of course remote sensing can enable a certain glimpse into whatever may still be there, e.g. any structures that might still stand proud of the ground, such as stone circles. (I know that's fantasising, but it would be intriguing.)