TonThe idea of ”Lost Atlantis” under the North Sea connects Britain with the mainland Europe Conceived by HG Wells in the late 19th century, there is evidence that humans inhabited the forgotten world in 1931, when trawlers Adjacent to Dig a piece of peat containing the tip of a spear.
But until now, after ten years of pioneering research and the extraordinary discoveries of a group of amateur archaeologists searching for handicrafts and fossils on the Dutch coastline, a large-scale exhibition can provide a window into Dogland, which is a flooded area. After the tsunami 8000 years ago separated the British Isles from modern Belgium, Netherlands And southern Scandinavia.
exhibition, Doggerland: The Lost World of the North Sea,exist Royal Antiquities Museum The National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden in the south of the Netherlands includes more than 200 objects, from arrow-inlaid deer bones, fossilized hyena feces and mammoth teeth and other fossils, to cubs’ skull fragments. Male Neanderthal. A study of the forehead excavated near the Zeeland coast in 2001 showed that he was a big carnivorous. A small hole behind the brow bone is believed to be a scar from a harmless subcutaneous tumor, and a lump can be seen above his eye.
However, despite the fact that more and more expensive scientific studies have been conducted in the past decade, including recent investigations of the flooded landscape by the University of Bradford and Ghent, which have provided further clues about the cause of its destruction, it is precisely According to the doctor, the work of “citizen scientist” has produced some of the most exciting artifacts that can now tell a complete story Sasha Van der Vaart-Fershof, Assistant Curator of the Prehistory Department of the Museum.
As part of efforts to protect modern coastlines from the climate crisis, man-made beaches constructed from materials dug from the sea provide a world that was once inaccessible to modern humans, Neanderthals, and even older humans that have inhabited for 1 million years The treasures known hominids have Predecessors.
“We have a great community of amateur archaeologists. They walk on these beaches almost every day, looking for fossils and artifacts. We analyze and study them with them,” Van der Vaart-Vorshof said. “It is open to everyone, for example, anyone can find a hand axe. Amateur archaeologists have discovered almost all kits that should have been used.”
One such discovery is a 50,000-year-old flint tool with a handle made of birch linoleum. In 2016, it was discovered by nurse Willy van Wingerden (Willy van Wingerden) that it helped to update the Neanderthal – Once considered rude and simple – able to complete precise and complex multi-stage tasks. A painting in the exhibition imagines this sharp tool being used by one person as a razor to shave another person’s head.
Other discoveries include fragments of human skulls with cut marks, which may have been caused by peeling, believed to be part of a burial ceremony, and remains such as the jaws of hyenas, which were found after six years of walking on the beach near Rotterdam. Just before being washed clean in front of Van Wingeden. The open grasslands of Doggerland are ideal grazing grounds for large groups of animals, such as reindeer, which are prey for cave lions, saber cats, cave hyenas and wolves.
Dogland – It was named after Dogger Bank in the 1990s by Bryony Coles, an archaeologist at the University of Exeter. Dogger Bank is a seabed in the North Sea, which in turn was named after the “Dogger” fishing boat that sailed there in the 17th century – believed to have been It was classified about 8,200 years ago after a large-scale tsunami.
The sea level of the last ice age was much lower than today, but the submarine landslides off the coast of Norway produced catastrophic waves.
“There was a time when Dogland was dry and extremely rich, and it was a great place for hunter-gatherers,” Van der Vaart-Vorshof said. “This is not a certain edge of the earth, nor a land bridge to the UK. It is indeed the heart of Europe. There are some lessons to be learned. The story of Doggerland shows the destructive nature of climate change. The climate change we see today is man-made Yes, but the impact may be as destructive as the changes seen years ago.”
Take a virtual tour of the Doggerland: The Lost World of the North Sea. The exhibition will officially open on October 31. YouTube channel of the National Museum of Antiquities
