Doggerland : Lost World under the North Sea.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Amkreutz, Luc

Contributor:

Vaart-Verschoof, Sasja van der

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antiquities.

Antiquities, Prehistoric.

Underwater archaeology.

underwater archaeology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Sidestone Press, 2022.

Summary:

This popular-science book tells the story of one of the most important, but least known major archaeological sites in Europe: Doggerland. Few people know that the beaches along the North Sea lie on the edge of a vast lost world. A prehistoric landscape that documents almost a million years of human habitation and lay dry for most of that time. Doggerland is where early hominids left the first footprints in northern Europe, more than 900,000 years ago. Later, for hundreds of thousands of years, it was the scene of ice ages. A world of woolly mammoths and rhinoceroses, horses and reindeer and the successful Neanderthals who hunted them, including Krijn: the first Neanderthal from Doggerland. At the end of the last Ice Age, the first modern humans also left their traces here, including the famous Leman-and-Ower-Banks spearhead - the first documented Doggerland find - and some of the oldest art in the region. With the onset of the Holocene, our current era, 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 - to which they successfully adapted. 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.

Contents:

Intro

Following in their footsteps, but choosing my own path

Foreword

First encounters

Part 1

DOGGERLAND

A lost world rediscovered

Ice, rivers, sea and spectacle: Geological variation in a drowned landscape

Mapping a drowning land

Part 2

DOGGERLAND EARLY INHABITANTS

Stepping into Britain: Happisburgh and the first humans in northern Europe

Citizen science and the submerged Palaeolithic landscapes in the North Sea

Rachel Bynoe

Krijn: Face to face with Doggerland's first Neanderthal

Neanderthals in the cold 'North Sea Serengeti'

Neanderthal treasures

Modern humans at the end of the ice age

The oldest art: Ice age Expressionism

Animals of the mammoth steppe

Part 3

Drowning DOGGERLAND

Animals after the ice age

Jørn Zeiler

Hunter-gatherers in a rich wetland

A lucky shot? A red deer in the crosshairs

Marcel Niekus

A thousand hunts: Barbed points from Doggerland

Garry Momber

Bouldnor Cliff: A drowned prehistoric site emerging from the seabed

Rotterdam-Yangtze Harbour: Excavating at 20 metres deep

The North Sea as Highway: Neolithic argonauts and prehistoric trade

Part 4

DOGGERLAND investigated

Tracing people: Secrets of bones and teeth unravelled

Points of animal and human bone: Sorting with collagen

Europe's Lost Frontiers: Mapping the landscape

On course to the Brown Bank: Research in the North Sea

Part 5

DOGGERLAND today

Collecting Doggerland

Searching the coast and making finds: what then?

The North Sea: The busiest sea in the world

Future for Doggerland? Collect, research and protect

Thinking of Doggerland: A vanished landscape remembered

Afterword

Further reading

Blank Page.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Amkreutz, Luc Doggerland

ISBN:

9464261153

9789464261158

OCLC:

1396847286

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.