Doggerland, the ancient heart of Europe submerged by a catastrophic tsunami
According to British researchers, the submerged portion of land was once the center of Europe. The divers came across the remains of what appears to be a real "underwater world".
Not far from the coast of Great Britain, traces of a disappeared continent have been found. British Atlantis – as scholars have defined it – was submerged by water in a period between 18,000 BC and 5,500 BC.
According to British researchers, the submerged portion of land was once the center of Europe. Doggerland once stretched from Scotland to Denmark, but suddenly found itself covered by the waters of the North Sea. The reason for its disappearance is thought to be due to a sudden global climate change.
British Atlantis was discovered by a team of divers employed by some oil companies working in collaboration with the science department of the University of St. Andrews.
The divers came across the remains of what appears to be a real "underwater world", with a population of tens of thousands of people and which may have been the "real heart" of ancient Europe.
Thanks to the data collected by oil company technicians, a team of archaeologists, climatologists and geophysicists managed to map the entire surface of the "lost land". According to scholars, this ancient area of Europe was inhabited by very luxuriant fauna and flora.
Furthermore, it is very likely that it was one of the territories populated by mammoths, a species that became extinct at the end of the last ice age.
The reason for the flooding of the Doggerland area is still unclear. Researchers think that the ancient heart of Europe was suddenly hit by a devastating tsunami.
The huge wave would be the final epilogue of a larger process that submerged the lowest areas over thousands of years. It cannot be ruled out that the disappearance of Doggerland is associated with the global cataclysm which, according to some scholars, hit our planet about 12 thousand years ago.
According to Dr. Bates, geophysicist
“Doggerland was the very heart of Europe. For years we have speculated about the existence of a lost land, starting from animal bones pulled up from fishermen's nets across the North Sea, but it is only thanks to work with oil companies that we have been able to reconstruct what it looked like and the extension of this lost land”.
As reported by the Daily Mail, the research is the fruit of 15 years of meticulous field work around Britain's murky waters. Thanks to pioneering techniques, scholars have been able to reconstruct the flora and fauna that populated ancient Doggerland.
Furthermore, the numerous finds found on the seabed bring "back to life" the numerous Mesolithic populations who inhabited the lost continent. The research team is currently busy reconstructing the habits of these populations, including any burial places.
This research does nothing but confirm a fact that is now constant in paleontological and archaeological research in recent years: planet Earth has a dramatic past, characterized by massive and sudden climate changes.
The hope is that by looking at the past history of our planet, we can shed light on events that could repeat themselves in the not too distant future.
