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To: decimon

HEck, I wonder how far south Man was of the Glacier line, and/or if it was connected to britain still at that time.


13 posted on 08/11/2009 6:18:36 PM PDT by WoofDog123
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To: WoofDog123
HEck, I wonder how far south Man was of the Glacier line, and/or if it was connected to britain still at that time.

According to the article, Man was at that time an island.

18 posted on 08/11/2009 6:31:42 PM PDT by decimon
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To: WoofDog123; SunkenCiv

http://huss.exeter.ac.uk/archaeology/research/rdoggerland.shtml

Doggerland Project

Prof. Bryony Coles has been examining the archaeology of “Doggerland”, which now lies under the North Sea. Its highest point is the submerged Dogger Bank where prehistoric artefacts are occasionally found by fishermen and geologists. At the height of the last Ice Age, Doggerland was dry and stretched from the present east coast of Britain and the present coasts of The Netherlands, Denmark and North Germany. Thus, the so-called land-bridge, was a place where people settled as the ice-sheets wasted and northwestern Europe became habitable once more. But, as the ice-sheets retreated further and sea levels rose, the North Sea encroached on the land, eventually separating the British Peninsula from the mainland.

The Doggerland Project has made use of recent geological exploration of the North Sea bed, and other sources of data, to reconstruct the former landscape and explore its cultural interpretations. The presence of the former landscapes, their changing coastlines, the process of land loss and the eventual insularity of Britain affected the inhabitants of northwestern Europe from the late Palaeolithic to the Neolithic, if not later. Three papers have been published from this project. The next stage will be to investigate possible means of underwater survey for archaeological sites, most probably around the former estuaries of Doggerland’s rivers.

MAP: http://huss.exeter.ac.uk/archaeology/images/research/rdoggerland.jpg


25 posted on 08/11/2009 6:52:41 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (DON'T LIE TO ME!)
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