Mapping Doggerland: The Mesolithic Landscapes of the Southern North Sea
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Mapping Doggerland: The Mesolithic Landscapes of the Southern North Sea by Vincent Gaffney Mbe Fsa
12,000 years ago the area that now forms the southern North Sea was dry land: a vast plain populated by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers. By 5,500 BC the entire area had disappeared beneath the sea as a consequence of rising sea levels. Until now, this unique landscape remained hidden from view and almost entirely unknown. The North Sea Palaeolandscape Project, funded by the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund, have mapped 23,000 km2 of thislost worldusing seismic data collected for mineral exploration.Mapping Doggerlanddemonstrates that the North Sea covers one of the largest and best preserved prehistoric landscapes in Europe. In mapping this exceptional landscape the project has begun to provide an insight into the historic impact of the last great phase of global warming experienced by modern man and to assess the significance of the massive loss of European land that occurred as a consequence of climate change.
Professor Vincent Gaffney is the 50th Anniversary Chair in Landscape Archaeology at the University of Bradford. Current research projects include the ERC-funded Synergy project, SUBNORDICA, and the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project. He has worked extensively across Europe, America and Africa. and has received many awards for his work including the European Archaeological Heritage Prize, and the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher Education (1996 and 2022). In 2018 he was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Awards for services to scientific research.
Simon Fitch is a Research Fellow at the University of Bradford. He has led the seismic mapping aspect of the ERC funded Europe's Lost Frontiers project and has a longstanding interest in the study of submerged landscapes. His continuing research focuses upon the study of submerged Mesolithic and Late Palaeolithic landscapes worldwide and the investigation of the impacts of environmental and landscape change upon human populations during prehistory.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781905739141 |
| ISBN 10 | 1905739141 |
| Title | Mapping Doggerland: The Mesolithic Landscapes of the Southern North Sea |
| Author | Vincent Gaffney Mbe Fsa |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Archaeopress |
| Year published | 2007-12-12 |
| Number of pages | 143 |
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