The last ice age impacted not only the landscape in by forming these big hill features and some of these big pits and scouring things out, but that's also when a lot of the river systems started changing their course. And were where the sea was and where the sea wasn't. At the time, the idea of the dadoga bankar and the dogr land being a land bridge persisted for some time. When did et blown away? That's dephane aer, yes,. i think the term land bridge is really, i mean, it's used quite a lot, often to describe submerged landscapes, particularly when min two land massis, but it's quite unhelpful,
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the people, plants and animals once living on land now under the North Sea, now called Doggerland after Dogger Bank, inhabited up to c7000BC or roughly 3000 years before the beginnings of Stonehenge. There are traces of this landscape at low tide, such as the tree stumps at Redcar (above); yet more is being learned from diving and seismic surveys which are building a picture of an ideal environment for humans to hunt and gather, with rivers and wooded hills. Rising seas submerged this land as glaciers melted, and the people and animals who lived there moved to higher ground, with the coasts of modern-day Britain on one side and Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium and France on the other.
With
Vince Gaffney
Anniversary Professor of Landscape Archaeology at the University of Bradford
Carol Cotterill
Marine Geoscientist at the British Geological Survey
And
Rachel Bynoe
Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Southampton
Producer: Simon Tillotson