Doggerland : lost world under the North Sea /

This popular-science book tells the story of one of the most important, but least known major archaeological sites in Europe: Doggerland. Few people know that the beaches along the North Sea lie on the edge of a vast lost world. A prehistoric landscape that documents almost a million years of human...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Amkreutz, Luc (Editor), Van der Vaart-Verschoof, Sasja (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden : Sidestone Press, [2022].
Subjects:
Underwater archaeology > North Sea.
Antiquities, Prehistoric > North Sea.
Electronic books.
Electronic books
Antiquities.
Antiquities, Prehistoric.
Underwater archaeology.
North Sea > Antiquities.
Atlantic Ocean > North Sea.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Following in their footsteps, but choosing my own path
  • Foreword
  • First encounters
  • Part 1
  • DOGGERLAND
  • A lost world rediscovered
  • Ice, rivers, sea and spectacle: Geological variation in a drowned landscape
  • Mapping a drowning land
  • Part 2
  • DOGGERLAND EARLY INHABITANTS
  • Stepping into Britain: Happisburgh and the first humans in northern Europe
  • Citizen science and the submerged Palaeolithic landscapes in the North Sea
  • Rachel Bynoe
  • Krijn: Face to face with Doggerland's first Neanderthal
  • Neanderthals in the cold 'North Sea Serengeti'
  • Neanderthal treasures
  • Modern humans at the end of the ice age
  • The oldest art: Ice age Expressionism
  • Animals of the mammoth steppe
  • Part 3
  • Drowning DOGGERLAND
  • Animals after the ice age
  • Jørn Zeiler
  • Hunter-gatherers in a rich wetland
  • A lucky shot? A red deer in the crosshairs
  • Marcel Niekus
  • A thousand hunts: Barbed points from Doggerland
  • Garry Momber
  • Bouldnor Cliff: A drowned prehistoric site emerging from the seabed
  • Rotterdam-Yangtze Harbour: Excavating at 20 metres deep
  • The North Sea as Highway: Neolithic argonauts and prehistoric trade
  • Part 4
  • DOGGERLAND investigated
  • Tracing people: Secrets of bones and teeth unravelled
  • Points of animal and human bone: Sorting with collagen
  • Europe's Lost Frontiers: Mapping the landscape
  • On course to the Brown Bank: Research in the North Sea
  • Part 5
  • DOGGERLAND today
  • Collecting Doggerland
  • Searching the coast and making finds: what then?
  • The North Sea: The busiest sea in the world
  • Future for Doggerland? Collect, research and protect
  • Thinking of Doggerland: A vanished landscape remembered
  • Afterword
  • Further reading
  • Blank Page

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