Mapping Doggerland: The Mesolithic Landscapes of the Southern North Sea

Name: Mapping Doggerland: The Mesolithic Landscapes of the Southern North Sea
Brand: Archaeopress
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By Vincent Gaffney

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12,000 years ago the area that now forms the southern North Sea was dry land: a vast plain populated by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers. By 5,500 BC the entire area had disappeared beneath the sea as a consequence of rising sea levels. Until now, this unique landscape remained hidden from view and almost entirely unknown. The North Sea Palaeolandscape Project, funded by the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund, have mapped 23,000 km2 of this "lost world" using seismic data collected for mineral exploration. "Mapping Doggerland" demonstrates that the North Sea covers one of the largest and best preserved prehistoric landscapes in Europe. In mapping this exceptional landscape the project has begun to provide an insight into the historic impact of the last great phase of global warming experienced by modern man and to assess the significance of the massive loss of European land that occurred as a consequence of climate change.

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Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 148
Release Date:: 2007-12-12
Publication Date:: 2007-12-12
Publisher:: Archaeopress
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1905739141
ISBN13:: 9781905739141
Weight:: 658 g
Height:: 21.1 cm
Width:: 29.5 cm
Thickness:: 1 cm

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