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Doggerland

Dogger Bank Paleolandscape · NSF Doggerland

Upper Palaeolithic to Mesolithic·Maglemosian / Mesolithic hunter-gatherers·🇬🇧 North Sea, Dogger Bank between Britain & Denmark, United Kingdom

About

About Doggerland

Vast Mesolithic plain linking Britain to Europe (11000–5500 BCE) with river valleys, forests, hunting camps surveyed via seismic and cores; inundated by post-glacial rise and Storegga tsunami 6200 BCE. Not a city but inhabited landscape with settlements (briefly Seahenge context).

History

How it came to be

Built
Natural landscape; sites: 9000–6200 BCE
Period
Upper Palaeolithic to Mesolithic
Culture
Maglemosian / Mesolithic hunter-gatherers
Purpose
Habitation landscape
Excavation
Excavation ongoing
  1. Natural landscape; sites: 9000–6200 BCE

    Initial construction

  2. c. 1445 CE

    Abandonment

Location

Where it is

55.0000° N · 2.5000° E · -32 m

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