Doggerland lost world under the North Sea
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...
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Sidestone Press
2022
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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. 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. |
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| Beschreibung: | 207 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten |
| ISBN: | 9789464261134 978-94-6426-113-4 |