Marked Dogger Bank

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

Doggerland, the drowned land

At the end of the Ice Age, Britain was joined to the continent by a wide, low land of hills, rivers and marshes. Rising seas slowly drowned it, and a huge undersea landslide off Norway may have sent a tsunami across what was left, about 6200 BC.

Date
About 10,000 to 6200 BCIII · Farming and the New Stone Age
Place
Dogger Bank · Star Carr, Yorkshire · Storegga, NorwayEurope
Laid out as
A siteOne place known mainly from digging, read layer by layer from the top down.
Lessons
5 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

  1. IA land under the North Sea
  2. IIStar Carr
  3. IIIThe Storegga tsunami
  4. IVFinding Doggerland with seismic maps
  5. VWhen Britain became an island

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Vince Gaffney
  • Bryony Coles

Objects

  • The Star Carr headdresses
  • A harpoon dredged from the Leman and Ower bank

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

10000 BC to 6200 BC. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?