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- proper noun A former
landmass in the southernNorth Sea which connected the island ofGreat Britain to mainlandEurope during the lastice age .
Etymologies
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The antler was found in a part of the North Sea called Doggerland, which has long since disappeared beneath the waves.
EDP24 News 2010
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The antler was found in a part of the North Sea called Doggerland, which has long since disappeared beneath the waves.
EDP24 News 2010
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As for the route of this migration, it probably took these ancient hunter-gatherers across Doggerland – a now submerged stretch of land in the North Sea that is known as Dogger Bank today – and into eastern England.
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The Huntsman: Tulip Island or Doggerland? skip to main | skip to sidebar
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They put it to work in an ingenious way, reconstructing a soccer-field-sized patch of Doggerland.
Drowned Worlds 2008
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Doggerland, as you may know, is the name of a vast plain that joined Britain to Europe for nearly 12,000 years, until sea levels began rising dramatically after the last Ice Age.
Drowned Worlds 2008
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Like all landbridges, Doggerland seems to have been a pretty busy thoroughfare for ancient hunters and gatherers.
Drowned Worlds 2008
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Doggerland, for example, may have been rife with Mesolithic sites, and archaeologists are immensely keen to see how bands from this period made use of the landscape and adapted to rising sea levels.
Drowned Worlds 2008
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Doggerland is currently in the spotlight, but it is by no means the only lost world attracting scientific attention.
Drowned Worlds 2008
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Doggerland, which connected the island of Great Britain to mainland Europe during the last ice age.
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The name of this vanished expanse is Doggerland, named after the now-underwater Dogger sandbank 60 miles off the current English coast, which must have once formed a line of ancient hills along its eastern horizon.
Europe's Lost World (And The Megaflood That Ended It) Mike Sowden 2022
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