History with Kayleigh | Lost European Landmass, Doggerland @HistoryWithKayleigh | Uploaded August 2021 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
#EuropeanAtlantis #LostWorld #YoungerDryas #StoreggaSlides
Once upon a time not too long ago, Europe looked vastly different than what it looks like today.
The British, Scottish and Irish Isles were connected to not only mainland Europe but Scandinavia as well.
The landmass connecting them is known as Doggerland, this lush forest land was home to a variety of different animal species.
A place humans called home for hundreds of thousands of years until disaster struck, wiping away what once was.
A fact you might have never known is that up until at least 500.000 years ago the Chalk cliffs of Dover in South-East England were connected to the chalk cliffs of Calais in France which served the ancient people and animals as a land bridge.
As the interglacial period started the meltwater from this massive ice sheet created a river between the ice and the land bridge, eventually the water in the lake got so high it would overflow creating a waterfall over the land bridge and as time went by the gap where the waterfall would flow became bigger as it eroded more.
After the Elster Glaciation ended around 300.000 years ago, the Saalian Glaciation started, again an ice sheet covered the North Sea reaching even further south this time and when this started to melt it formed another lake, which would again erode and cut through the remnants of the land bridge between Dover and Calais.
Eventually approximately 130.000 years ago the Saalian ice sheet had completely melted and we entered the interglacial period of the Eemian period which lasted some 15.000 years, during this time the sea levels were between 6 and 9 meters higher than present day.
Of course as you may guess, this warm period was again followed by another glacial period, the Weichselian Glaciation which lasted from 115.000 until 11.700 years ago.
In this time period the area became a unique landscape not found on the planet since, called the Mammoth steppe. a variety of animals roamed the area, among these were Woolly Mammoths, Cave Hyena’s, Reindeer, Bison, Horses, European Cave Lions, Wolves, Brown bears, Woolly rhinoceros and Saber-Toothed Cats.
During the Last Glacial Maximum in the Weichselian some 33.000 years ago an ice sheet once again started to cover the North-Sea, around 26.500 years ago this ice sheet covered most of the British Isles, Scandinavia and parts of Northern Europe as you can see here.
The climate in north-western Europe most likely became uninhabitable for humans during this time and there are no traces of humans living here found between 27.000 and 14.500 years ago.
Around 20.000 years ago the climate started to become warmer for a while, during this period of approximately 2000 years of climate warming up, the sea level that was approximately 125 meters lower than present day started to rise.
The water from the ice sheet needed to go somewhere of course, this is still evident in the contours of the current sea bed in the North Sea, the water drainage flowed from East Anglia in England south east towards the Hoek van Holland in South-Holland the Netherlands, the water did not go across the strait of Dover as was assumed.
Disaster struck around 12.900 years ago when the Laacher See Volcano located in Germany erupted, the blast was so strong that no tree stood upright within 4 kilometres of the Volcano.
Approximately 100 years after the Laacher See Volcanic eruption 12.800 years ago, the Younger Dryas started and returned the climate to glacial conditions.
The eruption has been discussed as a possible cause for the start of the Younger Dryas, although a new improved dating of the start of the Younger Dryas published in 2021 now suggests there might have been 200 years between the eruption and the start of the Younger Dryas.
Music: Adrian von Ziegler
Sources:
Book – Doggerland Lost World in the North Sea
A multitude of Wikipedia pages of all the Time Periods
B.J. Coles (1998). Doggerland: a Speculative Survey. . Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 64, pp 45-81 doi:10.1017/
S0079497X00002176
Doggerland: the cultural dynamics of a shifting coastline
BRYONY J. COLES
Department of Archaeology, School of Geography and Archaeology, The University,
Exeter, UK
Become a Channel member: youtube.com/channel/UCMwDeEoupy8QQpKKc8pzU_Q/join
Support me on Patreon: patreon.com/HistoryWithKayleigh
Dutch Dolmen: youtube.com/watch?v=v-fFnbYx-w8&t=45s
Guided tour Doggerland exhibit: youtube.com/watch?v=a3PzgSJT1bU&t=65s
Ancient Structures: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyM1QcUGVGdfmvhQKoWzGJnJgQ4BfaplL
Ancient Queens: youtube.com/watch?v=L-5ENRuFn9g&list=PLyM1QcUGVGddonv6zBIjfj30EyMavpBPy&index=1
New Discoveries: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyM1QcUGVGdfCySvH9f3ReUXsuPbW0hAU
Fact or Fiction?: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyM1QcUGVGdeib_J7to1OuMEa6635OoQo
#EuropeanAtlantis #LostWorld #YoungerDryas #StoreggaSlides
Once upon a time not too long ago, Europe looked vastly different than what it looks like today.
The British, Scottish and Irish Isles were connected to not only mainland Europe but Scandinavia as well.
The landmass connecting them is known as Doggerland, this lush forest land was home to a variety of different animal species.
A place humans called home for hundreds of thousands of years until disaster struck, wiping away what once was.
A fact you might have never known is that up until at least 500.000 years ago the Chalk cliffs of Dover in South-East England were connected to the chalk cliffs of Calais in France which served the ancient people and animals as a land bridge.
As the interglacial period started the meltwater from this massive ice sheet created a river between the ice and the land bridge, eventually the water in the lake got so high it would overflow creating a waterfall over the land bridge and as time went by the gap where the waterfall would flow became bigger as it eroded more.
After the Elster Glaciation ended around 300.000 years ago, the Saalian Glaciation started, again an ice sheet covered the North Sea reaching even further south this time and when this started to melt it formed another lake, which would again erode and cut through the remnants of the land bridge between Dover and Calais.
Eventually approximately 130.000 years ago the Saalian ice sheet had completely melted and we entered the interglacial period of the Eemian period which lasted some 15.000 years, during this time the sea levels were between 6 and 9 meters higher than present day.
Of course as you may guess, this warm period was again followed by another glacial period, the Weichselian Glaciation which lasted from 115.000 until 11.700 years ago.
In this time period the area became a unique landscape not found on the planet since, called the Mammoth steppe. a variety of animals roamed the area, among these were Woolly Mammoths, Cave Hyena’s, Reindeer, Bison, Horses, European Cave Lions, Wolves, Brown bears, Woolly rhinoceros and Saber-Toothed Cats.
During the Last Glacial Maximum in the Weichselian some 33.000 years ago an ice sheet once again started to cover the North-Sea, around 26.500 years ago this ice sheet covered most of the British Isles, Scandinavia and parts of Northern Europe as you can see here.
The climate in north-western Europe most likely became uninhabitable for humans during this time and there are no traces of humans living here found between 27.000 and 14.500 years ago.
Around 20.000 years ago the climate started to become warmer for a while, during this period of approximately 2000 years of climate warming up, the sea level that was approximately 125 meters lower than present day started to rise.
The water from the ice sheet needed to go somewhere of course, this is still evident in the contours of the current sea bed in the North Sea, the water drainage flowed from East Anglia in England south east towards the Hoek van Holland in South-Holland the Netherlands, the water did not go across the strait of Dover as was assumed.
Disaster struck around 12.900 years ago when the Laacher See Volcano located in Germany erupted, the blast was so strong that no tree stood upright within 4 kilometres of the Volcano.
Approximately 100 years after the Laacher See Volcanic eruption 12.800 years ago, the Younger Dryas started and returned the climate to glacial conditions.
The eruption has been discussed as a possible cause for the start of the Younger Dryas, although a new improved dating of the start of the Younger Dryas published in 2021 now suggests there might have been 200 years between the eruption and the start of the Younger Dryas.
Music: Adrian von Ziegler
Sources:
Book – Doggerland Lost World in the North Sea
A multitude of Wikipedia pages of all the Time Periods
B.J. Coles (1998). Doggerland: a Speculative Survey. . Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 64, pp 45-81 doi:10.1017/
S0079497X00002176
Doggerland: the cultural dynamics of a shifting coastline
BRYONY J. COLES
Department of Archaeology, School of Geography and Archaeology, The University,
Exeter, UK
Become a Channel member: youtube.com/channel/UCMwDeEoupy8QQpKKc8pzU_Q/join
Support me on Patreon: patreon.com/HistoryWithKayleigh
Dutch Dolmen: youtube.com/watch?v=v-fFnbYx-w8&t=45s
Guided tour Doggerland exhibit: youtube.com/watch?v=a3PzgSJT1bU&t=65s
Ancient Structures: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyM1QcUGVGdfmvhQKoWzGJnJgQ4BfaplL
Ancient Queens: youtube.com/watch?v=L-5ENRuFn9g&list=PLyM1QcUGVGddonv6zBIjfj30EyMavpBPy&index=1
New Discoveries: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyM1QcUGVGdfCySvH9f3ReUXsuPbW0hAU
Fact or Fiction?: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyM1QcUGVGdeib_J7to1OuMEa6635OoQo
