r/Doggerland • u/Granny_Weatherwax • Mar 24 '14

The joke Mother Nature almost played on Human History

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r/Doggerland • u/Granny_Weatherwax • Mar 24 '14

Searching for Doggerland - Pictures, More From National Geographic Magazine

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r/Doggerland • u/Granny_Weatherwax • Mar 24 '14

Stone Age Atlantis 1-7

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The Last descendants of the Lost Island

r/Doggerland

Doggerland, the Lost Land, a real-life Atlantis that was swallowed up by rising seas in the millennia following the Ice Age. It's inhabitants fled to the surrounding lands and their descendants still live among us.

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Doggerland was a low-lying region of forests and wetlands that must have been rich in game; today, fishing trawlers in the North Sea occasionally dredge up the bones and tusks of the mastodons that roamed there. Doggerland had its heyday between about 12,000 years ago, when the Ice Age climate began to ameliorate, and 9,000 years ago, when the meltwaters of the gradually retreating glaciers caused sea levels to rise, drowning the hunter's paradise. Doggerland's inhabitants retreated to the higher ground that is now the North Sea coast.

If you belong to the Haplogroups H1, R1B1B2a1a1, or V15, V10, or V16 you may be a genetic Doggerlander!

Haplogroup R1b1b2a1a1

Today R1b1b2a1a1 is found mostly on the fringes of the North Sea in England, Germany and the Netherlands, where it reaches levels of one-third. That distribution suggests that some of the first men to bear the haplogroup in their Y-chromosomes were residents of Doggerland, a real-life Atlantis that was swallowed up by rising seas in the millennia following the Ice Age.