Houses are interesting not just place to live, but statements about where you live as well. Some people have suggested that this may even be the result of people coming off the north sea plane on to the land. There's also a move from so called broad blade to narrow blade, to stone tool tools at around eight 400 b c. Andyo, never forget how productive these ar areas are at times. Social events occur. And for instance, housing may be a reflection of social you give u ta tremendous er er distinction. But there is another point we should be considering: what we may be seeing is the settlement pattern of the north sea,. This highly productive area might see semi sedentary
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