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What was Doggerland?
Mesolithic hunter-gatherers lived on its plains; trawlers still dredge up their tools. Rising seas drowned it, with the Storegga slide tsunami of c. 6150 BC near the end.
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Doggerland, the Drowned Country Beneath the North Sea, and the Tsunami That Finished It Ten thousand years ago the North Sea was dry land: Doggerland, a vast plain of rivers and marshes joining Britain to the continent, home to Mesolithic hunter-gatherers whose tools trawlers still dredge up. Rising seas drowned it over millennia — and around 6150 BC the Storegga slide, a Norwegian submarine landslide, sent a tsunami over what remained.
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