How Doggerland Sank Beneath The Waves (500,000-4000 BC) // Prehistoric Europe Documentary

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In the Netherlands we find relics from the iceage daily. De zandmotor and the Tweede Maasvlakte are made with sand from the North sea floor. As the tide comes and goes it reveals bones from mammoth, rhino, horses, megaloceros, and even Neanderthal and human tools . Also the fishermen find amazing relics in their nets. I cannot describe how much it fascinates me.

Leads you to wonder how much history is under the waves that we have no idea about

Brilliant documentary thank you. I come from the village where the Creswell horse head was found, Creswell Crags is an amazing place with a lovely little museum with plenty of other amazing finds. You can go on guided tours into the caves to see the rock art first hand. We're not exactly in the Peak District we're about 20 odd miles away but definitely worth a visit.

Cave kid: mommy look at the deer antler mask I made! Cave mom: that's cute sweetie! Archaeologist: the anthropological significance of this artifact may be indicative of emerging pre-religious ritualistic tendencies with zoomorphic features.

Doggerland is such a fascinating thing to me. Just knowing that it was inhabited by humans. It fills my head with ideas of what ancient people lived there and what culture myth and history is buried there.

You named your boat "Colander"? Yes. Her sister ships "Strainer" and "Sieve" both sank on their maiden voyages. We're hoping for better luck this time.

Who else would feel Uneasy about going to sea in a boat called "The colander"?

I would worry if I were aboard a boat named ‘The Colander’

Interestingly, descendants of the Dogger people still exist in the UK. They inhabit carparks late at night.

I have long identified Doggerland with the legendary Hyperborea, naturally inclusive of Scandinavia. I first became aware of Doggerland as a boy in the 1950s, from an interesting Popular Science magazine article by, or about, archaeologist Dr. Jurgen Spanuth, who went diving in an old-style diving suit off the coast of Heligoland. In the North Sea. In the late 1940s, where he followed an ancient stone wall out to sea underwater to a bridge, gate and roadway, to ruins of ancient stone buildings. He had discovered an ancient stone village or town. He said the locals called the submerged remains Doggerland.

A museum in hull has a small carving of a boat with peg like people in it, they say it's from doggerland, it's fascinating!

There's something poetic about the three major country defining rivers of the Rhine, the Seine and the Thames running into the same river. These rivers have been vital in shaping some of the biggest European countries and they used to unite.

Consistently one of the greatest channels on the tube.

As an American, yes, I mourn that we never learned of this rich and complicated history. It is so valuable to know the prehistoric history of Europe. It is our history as well.

Wow, I didn't even realize this wasn't a professional tv documentary until the end. You are amazing!

Some parts went down faster. Like immediately. There's actually an entire island, with a village on it, and a dock area, where basically a natural gas bubble that was holding up the land suddenly burst and the whole lot ended up under the water. And much deeper than the surrounding seabed now. It went from an island to a crater. They worked out that it went down fast because of the relics they found down there. They're too valuable to have been left behind by people moving away from a slow inundation.

Now that's what I call a hard brexit!

26:57 The Thames and Rhine flowed into the same delta 🤯🤯🤯🤯. So many small aspects of this documentary could be a long interesting documentary themsel

To think about the clear night skies, deadening silence and utterly unspoiled vast continents of pure nature is mesmerizing