Did a Tsunami Swallow Part of Europe?
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What happened to the piece of prime prehistoric real estate known as Doggerland? While a massive megatsunami might have drowned it for good, the underlying reason that it now lies under the sea may have actually been the same thing that made it so great in the first place.
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"Great British Breakoff" 😂😂😂
The original Brexit. 😂
So Brexit was in fact Brexit 2?
I misread at first and I was like they are doing a crossover episode?!?
The 1st Brexit
The OG Brexit
“In a few thousand years, who knows which now-familiar locations will be considered long lost worlds, too.”
*suspiciously pans over Florida*
As a Floridian, I can confirm we are all just waiting to be sunk into the sea.
it just won't take a couple of thousand years, could already happen in our lifetime *fingers crossed*
Thankfully nothing of value would be lost in such an event
One can only hope …
@@thorium222Flordia will survive even if all the ice melts large parts of flordia will still exists and that will take millennia for that to happen
I am italian, and, funny fact, even in Italy we had a “Dogger land” in a smaller scale! It was the “Adriatic great plain”, a land sheet which was formed by the last glaciation along the northern coasts of the Adriatic sea, and which totally desappeared after the beginning of the Olocene period!!!
Thank you for the video!!!
@@progo8156 The Adriatic is on the East of Italy (behind the boot). It connects to the Mediterranean.
@progo8156 Yep, down to the heel of the boot of Italy and then it turns into the Ionian Sea just past Albania.
@@Taricus that's very interesting, thanks for the info Taricus 👊. While I'm a fan and find all this very interesting, I must admit im still learning or trying to at least lol 😆 (albeit, I'm pretty bad lol )
As an Englishman, we have many dogger car parks 😂
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I'm always pleased how our ruse is working, but I'll tell you the real reason.
The Dutch wanted to take over Doggerland, but when they heard of it they cleverly sunk their lands beneath the waves. So we've spend the last few centuries perfecting our land reclamation technology and it won't be long now. We're coming for you Doggerland!
Gekoloniseerd? Wellicht binnenkort.
Doggerland shall know GEEKOLONISEERD
unhinged
The brits don't realize it yet but they're just part of the Waddeneilanden.
The Dutch will travel around Doggerland on their bikes 😂
"Who knows what areas of land today will be considered long lost worlds in the future" *zooms in on Florida.*
Lol, I came here to say that.
I’m more interested in the mystical, musical people in the mythic city of Nawlenz.
@Emelia39 - Since much of the Floridian east coast is built on old coral beds, street flooding effects sections of it on even sunny, non-rainy days.
@@MossyMozart Yeah, I used to live there and it's sad. People still are moving there in droves, though.
There goes Florida.
Oh no! Anyways
I've often found things along the Norfolk/Lincolnshire coast. Fishermen often pull up mastodon and a range of different odds and ends. It's no big mystery but very interesting. Much of our coastal areas have seen a lot of changes even in recorded history where towns and villages have disappeared due to the encroaching sea.
I recently listened toa podcast about the storm surge in 1634, that destroyed quite a few villages along the coast for good, because the damage was so vast and so many people dead, that the land was just given up and dams not rebuild. Crazy to think about, how much history is at the bottom of the sea now!
Yep. The Dutch and Danes for example faced rising coastlines for most of the Middle Ages due to how low-lying they were, which has only begun to be reversed in the Modern Era with landfills. Parts of ancient Alexandria are also underwater due to rising coastlines.
There were no mastodons in Europe during the Pleistocene
@@bkjeong4302 Ah because all fossils come from the Pleistocene. There were plenty of Proboscideans in Europe for over 20 million years, a lot of which were Mastodons in the Miocene.
Sorry but you're incorrect. Not only mastodon but mammoth; large bison and many other species inhabited northern Europe. Northern Russia is still littered with mammoth etc still to this day.. There are cultures that depended on these large herbivores for pretty much everything - meat; skins; ivory and building materials snd much more.@@bkjeong4302
Not only was the land lost beneath the sea, but when Beleriand was drowned, the whole shape of the world was changed, and the lands of the West were removed from Arda, and the earth took on its global form. And Morgoth was cast into the void beyond.
I'm glad someone else remembers the consequences of the War of Wrath
I'm more inclined to think of Conan's Cimmeria, myself: the geography more or less matches up with Robert E. Howard's maps.
Was that before or after Cthulu?
Something something ring, war, more war, peace, war, something something ring gone, peace.
@@ConontheBinarian melkor came for some fools but not hard enough. then sauron came and tried to match his old boss, but frodo and samwise rode up on some eagles and gave him the dmk. then they was all gay and went out west to live big and sh you know
"The Great British Brake Off" got a solid giggle out of me. 😄😄😄
When I saw the thumbnail, I knew this would be about Doggerland. I would love to go back in time and see it. You can see similar things where I'm from, in Guernsey. There used to be an ancient forest, on the west, south west coast, that disappeared only in the last couple thousand years. They still sometimes find Trees there, on Vazon beach under the sand, that are thousands of years old. Good video.
In the thumbnail there's a giant red arrow pointing at it and it's got its own outline - what else would the video be about? 😅
Really excited for this video! I've been fascinated by Doggerland ever since I first learned of it! I wish there were more artist impressions etc of what it might have looked like from foot-level
Would have looked like Lincolnshire and Norfolk.
@@julianshepherd2038 But forested, as may now be observed submerged offshore.
@@julianshepherd2038 Maybe, I thought maybe like Schiermonnikoog or Terschelling
15,000-7,000 years ago were CRAZY times. The scars left across the planet & the massive changes in biology across the globe make our persistence admirable.
We were the the super clever ones that could adapt to the most kinds of adverse situations. To think how many of our cousins lineages didnt make it... now we shape the very planet o.o
Neanderthal disappeared more than 30k ago, floresiensis 60k ago.
The real hard times were 74k ago with the YTT.
You've got your timeline messed up.
Its weird to think concurrently civilisations were beginning
@@EzullofAre you really trying to one up people in "who had it harder and when" in the deep past?
"BACK IN THE DAY OUR ANCESTERS HAD TO WALK UP HILL 5000O KILOMETERS THROUGH DRIVING METEORS TO GET FOOD! BOTH WAYS!"
@@Ezullof - Neither Neanderthals nor Denisovans "disappeared". They merged. Get your DNA tested to see if they merged with YOUR ancestors.
We are adaptable and resilient like rats, seagulls and cockroaches. Definitely an invasive species that is wreaking havoc to the earth ecosystem. If we were as intelligent as most people think we are we wouldn’t kill each other in pointless wars and we would take better care of the only planet hospitable to life within our reach.
I'm dutch, and it's nice to see you guys do a video about an area close to home 😊
You live on a sea bed
@@julianshepherd2038most of humanity lives and has lived on what used to be a sea bed. At one time or another. Do you not watch this channel at all?!?
Sea levels have always changed over the couple of years that land has been around.
But clearly not long enough that you have to point it out to a Dutch person. They know nothing about boating, water systems, islands, land reclamation, the history of their peoples and their land…
@@julianshepherd2038that’s the Dutch for you
Are there submarine drones that can go to the floor of bodies of water and excavate? I'd love to see a video on what cool gear modern archeologists use.
There are remotely controlled submarines, but it wouldn't make a lot of sense to do proper excavations with them. You can scout and recover some items, but that works for proper archaeology with actual sites from sedentary cultures.
Prehistoric sites tend to have a lot of "signs", like bits of charcoal, some bones, and few artifacts. Those you rather find here and there, and you still need to find the site.
In other words, the tricky part isn't to conduct excavations, it's to find the site in the first place. A semi-autonomous submarine that would be able to detect prehistoric artifacts thanks to intensive training (similar to how submarines can recognize certain species of starfish) would probably be useful, but keep in mind that the sites are likely very disturbed anyway...
I don't know how they did it, but the company I work for has done excavations labelled 'Doggerland'. I really need to ask what they've found. Only been there for a month or so.
One issue is that trawlers disturb the sea floor so things get jumbled up and broken a lot
Similar tools for other areas are generally referred to as ROV (remotely operated vehicle).
Although the term could be ample for a search, most results go to submarine robots because other vehicles use different acronyms
It's only 40 feet deep. Scuba is entirely possible.
Living in Florida that last bit made me feel vulnerable.
Doggerland still exists, it is just migrated mainly to carparks now in places like Essex.
🤣🤣😅 its active in many other places too. Once nightfall comes the remote country car parks are showing signs of life recognised by car headlights shining out in the blackness
The North Sea has always been important fishing grounds for Danish fishing vessels. As a kid, I often found amber and bones on the Danish shores. Because the wind mostly comes from the west, the Danish coast of Jutland is rich in these finds.
I'd love to see you guys do an episode on Iguanodon's weird hands. Aside from the well-known thumb spike, I feel like people never really talk about its opposable pinky finger. I've also been trying to figure out why hadrosaurs moved away from that multipurpose hand structure in favor of more hooflike forelimbs.
I LOVE iguanodon!!!
Take me away iguanodon 😩
Youre forgetting a big one, the giant Red Stag. In an article in National Geographic about 10 years ago that focused on Doggerland. One of the things talked about was when trawlers brought up a huge skull and horns of a giant Red Stag. Great topic though, a fascinating subject that I've been intrigued by. Great video once again.
In Norway there still exists pieces of a dock made during the Viking era that now the highest tides of the year don't reach the dock. There are hundreds of examples of the Ocean's depth eb and flow and we moved to and fro along with it. We always have and always will, for that is the nature of Humans.
Billions of Dollars of Floodprotection to save Venice
:-(
#hurts
that is not about the sea level but the norwegian landmass still rising after having been depressed by all the weight of the glaciers
what does that mean? that sea level was higher in Viking era than it is now?
@@islandsunset quite opposite I belive. We're now succesfully melting icecapes.
@@islandsunsetnah Norway just decided to ascend beyond the puny sea
By the time the Tsunami hit, Doggerland would have been a very flat and swampy wetland area like the rest of the Dutch/German coastal regions were until we reinforced and drained them. There aren't many species of tree that can survive in these cold salty marshes, leaving the loose soil largely unprotected against the sudden flood.
Rivers would have helped the erosion process.
The river Trent's course flowed down to Nottingham, then headed East to what became the "Wash"
It cut out what is now known as the Belvoir Vale.
So imagine all that water flowing out across Dogger land
Then there's the Themes.
It might not have been a tidal wave, that washed the land away?!
Just the river waters flooding that area, and braking it down?!
"what places will be mysterious in the future?" As the camera settles on Florida
I love that stock picture you use every time you mention Neanderthals, with the one Neanderthal getting ready to hug the other two. It just warms my heart.
There's an ancient French legend about a kingdom known as Ys that had been swallowed up by the sea in some sort of cataclysm. More recent adaptations have given it a very Christian narrative. The legend puts it in this general area, off the French coastline of the channel. This is absolutely wild in the implications, being perhaps an ancient event that had been passed down generation to generation.
Fun fact, this is what the Ys JRPG series' first installment was based off of. Check it out if action JRPGs are your thing. So good.
Lyonesse was another one. The franco-celtic stories of Bretony/Bretaigne reference heavily.
Imagine what people of the future might imagine about what underwater Walt Disneyworld was...
It's mostly metal and plastic which will be unrecognizable after a few decades of seawater and sunlight
There will be tablets reading DeSantis.
I hope those fish have a good time in Walt Disney’s Park!
"Whomever they were they seemed to have had a cult built around a mouse named Disney."
But I thought it was better, down where it's wetter, under the sea.
I thought Doggerland was named after Dogger Bank, which had been named after those Dutch fishing boats.
The bank is roughly in the middle of the North Sea and is rather shallow.
Back in the olden days, it would have been a delightful hill from which to survey the wondrously rich plains of Doggerland.
A fun alternate history trilogy of books centred on Doggerland, by Stephen Baxter is:
Stone Spring
Bronze Summer
Iron Winter
The Long Earth series guy! Sweet. Gonna hafta check those ones out now, too!
The employees at PBS don't like to work much. So their research is mediocre.
I am all for future humans 8000 years from now having insane myths and legends about the now sunken Florida, Netherlands and Denmark
As much as I love it and lived there for 4 years, I think Venice too will take company to those countries...
I presumably should already be ahead of curve and claim those places were most likely a myth / conspiracy theory.
Imagine them finding old newspapers about Florida man lol
@@YaBoiDREX - Or the hated evil devil of the underworld, DeSantis.
@@AliceHope78 Actually, I take it back - replace Netherlands for Venice
If there is any country, city, region or place in the entire world that'll survive rising sea levels not just intact, but might also even straight up profit from it, it's the Dutch
Bro took brexit to a whole new level
Thank you for clarifying the shark researchers, what a relief
Not a relief! Major disappointment! I was all on board till I found out they were just humans. 😕
Made me picture sharks in lab coats peering into microscopes.
I wonder how history would’ve been different if Dogger Island didn’t sink and we basically had a third British isle along with Great Britain and Ireland. Would the celts reach it like the other two islands? What about the Romans? Would Anglo-Saxon and Viking settlement of Britain be diminished if there was another island even closer to Germany and Scandinavia? If the UK does form would Dogger Island be apart of it?
And how easy the germany army would have used it during ww2 since land invasion would be viable.
@@chromesucks5299 not if new nations join Britain’s side as its blitzkrieg meatshield and speedbump😂
Who says Britain's isles? We probably all would be speaking Frysian right now, from up in Scotland to up in Denmark.
@@chromesucks5299 I didn’t mean Doggerland, I meant Dogger Island
Re: Viking settlements, it depends. Viking activity in Britain was heavily motivated by
a) large collections of valuables in British monasteries
b) relatively weak defences of said valuables.
Basically, easy money motivated people to go there, and some of them decided to stay permanently. Dogger island may be closer, but if anything, having Dogger island as a pit-stop along the way could possibly have led to *increased* Viking settlement of Britain, since it makes Britain more accessible.
Besides, Vikings also left settlements along their eastern routes, so having other options for settlements clearly didn't dissuade them from going to England.
Terra is SUCH a great channel!!! Please keep promoting it.
Every sunken city is Atlantis
In 1859, Joseph Méry wrote one of the earliest alternate histories titled Histoire de ce qui n'est pas arrivé, where Doggerland re-emerges.
Couldn't just tell an Interesting historical story without throwing in a little woke commentary.
PBS never fails to disappoint.
Everything doesn't have to have an agenda.
@@slowturtle6745... how is mentioning a 19th century science fiction book an agenda?
If you think this has an agenda thrown in you are correct. The agenda is to teach people about our beautiful world and its rich history. If thats a problem thenvi am truly sad for you and yours.
@@Peannlui The man made climate change is the agenda.
The earth has been in a constant state of flux since in came into being and will be until it ceases to exist and long after we're gone.
Those very climate changes are what made life possible.
I'm all for doing what we can and we can certainly do more but the world is going to keep turning regardless of anything we do.
I clicked on this video to learn something and to be entertained not to be lectured at. Everything doesn't have to have an agenda.
@@slowturtle6745Is the "woke commentary" in the room with us now?
1:20 wow he REALLY tried avoid saying "Atlantis" at all costs
Well, being in mind that it eventually separated us from the Brits, I consider this a win-win for Europe.
Jokes aside, just imagine how terrifying it must have been.
Yeah, sorry about that. I'd like to reiterate that only about half of Brits thought splitting from Europe was a good idea. The OTHER half of us Brits are deeply embarrassed by the first half.
The flooding you mean? Yeah, happened at the end of the last ice-age.
yes, imagine sea level rise 😅
@@FelixstoweFoamForgeummm we didn’t ‘split’ from ‘Europe’ - we left an intergovernmental organisation comprising some but far from all European counties. The UK remains linked to France by tunnel and Europe by an extensive flight network.
This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself 725
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall,
Or as a moat defensive to a house, 730
Against the envy of less happier lands,
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,
This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,
Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth,
Renowned for their deeds as far from home, 735
For Christian service and true chivalry,
As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry,
Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's Son,
This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land,
Dear for her reputation through the world, 740
Is now leased out, I die pronouncing it,
Like to a tenement or pelting farm:
England, bound in with the triumphant sea
Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege
Of watery Neptune
I'm submerging into his narration imagining myself boobing the snoots of doggos on the Doggerland. 😍
I want to go to the kinds of parties where topics like Doggerland are discussed! Clearly I haven't run into my people in the wild.
If you're a lawyer then you might have lawyer friends who chat about interesting cases at their parties. If you're a surgeon then etc. And if you're an archeologist specialising in that period of prehistory ........
It's so good to see him again.
I visited the Doggerland exhibition in Leiden. Really interesting to see certain items from that area.
I love things that used to be “unthinkable” and now are accepted as facts. Like land under the sea. Can’t wait to see more of what we discover under the oceans and seas
Of all the boats to name a land after, I personally would not have picked a Dogger 😳
Agreed. Pretty funny name
Type of Dutch boat, checks out 😅
@@TamDNB look up ‘dogging’ and you’ll get why @alicehargest posted that comment 😱
Oiltankerland
Car shag land
"Doggoland. A land full of puppies. You take a vacation there and just boop the snoots" 👉🐶
Gotta love the hosts on this channel XD
Is there a reason why the episode starts with the melody of the German national anthem/Haydn's Kaiserquartett? As a German I feel kind of honoured, but wouldn't have "God save the King" been a better fit? 😂
I thought I was the only one who noticed it. I was so confused, "why does that melody sound so familiar?" haha
I guess it's supposed to represent a nicer version of some seaman's chanty sang by the North Sea fishermen of old...
This is how prehistoric Mammals crossed over.
First time I'm actually early to an Eons episode, so worth it! Love your stuff!! ❤️
Thank you for this thumbnail, the Bake Off reference really made me laugh! But hearing our national anthem (German) as background music during the introduction was not so mildly distracting and confusing. It normally only gets played for football (or soccer) and I don't watch that, so I don't even know when I last heard it before today.
You should make a video about the island of Malta. We have an interesting past
Malt comes from Malta right?
I agree
@@riseALK I don't think so
Malta has an interesting history but you know what I love about it today?
Looking out of my window and seeing instead of a beautiful sea view I see 28 cranes without moving my head. If you're a tourist do not come here, it's cheaper in the Bahamas or Greece, unless you want to spend 2 euro on 500ml of chemical tasting water
@@JurassicPark2010 don't most maltese drink bottled water anyway? or is that included in the chemical tasting water? (I did my internship in malta and I came back in january)
"Gradually at first and then all at once." How true for so many of the situations we humans find ourselves in.
script: "who knows which now familiar locations will be considered mysterious, long lost places..."
images: "Florida. It's gonna be Florida."
This is the greatest channel on CZcams. You guys all do such amazing work!
The things I love about this channel is how they burnt themselves with dry jokes and not feel bad about it
I had never heard about Doggerland before! Very cool episode!! Thank you 💜
Always happy to see a new eons video! Thank you!
7:44 Wow, that Florida-Bahamas shot hit home hard. Could easily have shown, for example, the Maldives, Marshall islands & Tuvalu too...
There are underwater caves throughout the Mediterranean and I'm sure what had been Doggerland that would be full of neandertal and human-ish cultural artifacts. With the advances in technology, I had long wished there had been the funding to deeply explore them. We could find another Rising Star, or even more than one. Caves like Cosquer demonstrate this possibility. The tantalizing prospect of what we could learn of Culture is incalculable.
Yes, today's tech along with miniaturization should allow us to explore these hidden caves.
Doggerland was inhabited by aboriginals at some poiny.
I live on this coastline. Cliffs are falling into the sea regularly. Roads washed out. Houses get dragged back from the ever shrinking edge. So soon enough we’ll be joining doggerland ourselves.
Always interesting content! Would love for this channel to have daily videos!
The knowledge we have today is absolutely phenomenal. Thanks for sharing this and making these great videos, I'm always recommending this channel!
I live in Rhode Island, USA and a tsunami is one of my biggest fears.
Doggerland really is such an interesting case study.
Approx 7000 years ago there was a Tsunami caused by an underwater landslide that blootered the North and East coasts of Scotland.
There was a documentary on this event.
I think Baldrick was in it , why not ? He was in everything else historical.
The Montrose basin featured in it and the sediment layers shows evidence for age etc etc.
DJBDogg Edinburgh Scotland 😎
‘blootered’ 👍🏼🤣
Update. 8000yrs ago The STOREGGA event !!! Thought my Doric comment " Blootered" would raise a 😁😁😁😁😁
@@briandawson3330 One of those Doric words I had forgotten I knew ☺️
@lindaj5492. You can tak the loon oot o' Aberdeenshire, but ye canna tak Aberdeenshire oot o' the loon !!! From Huntly originally, are you from Aberdeenshire?
Now we need a video titled "did doggerland have any dogs?" 😂
I absolutely LOVE learning anything I can about Doggerland. Admittedly, that’s not a whole lot yet bc I have to rewatch/reread everything a bunch before I can remember lol
I like doggoland and the ancient tradition of "booping the snoot" 😂
In order for a tsunami to have permanently drowned Doggerland, it would have had to erode enough soil to bring the surface level below sea level; otherwise, the land would reappear once the tsunami flood water drained away..
That's what they said in the video.
Oof, that aerial shot of a certain southern state... There's a hurricane heading there now. Best wishes to you there
Blake seems like he would be fun to hang out with.
I saw the title and knew it was about Doggerland immediately! It's so cool that ancient myths of sunken cities from Celtic regions may have been inspired by real geological processes and cultural memories, just like in the western Mediterranean.
Excellent video! 😊
"Great British Break Off" is a legendary status joke XDDD
😍 I've been waiting for Eons to talk about Doggerland!
7:50 "mysterious, long last worlds too" *shows Florida* Oh, snap!.. 👁️👄👁️
Thanks for the offer. I think I’ll stick with those of the PBS channels, like Eons and Spacetime, that predate the current inundation, and hope they are not washed away in the tsunami on the horizon.
This is literally the best video title I've seen in a long while
I have been enthralled by Doggerland for years now. Its reall pretty cool.
As a person living just to the east of Doggerland, in Denmark: The rising sea levels and wilder weather are causing the same now again here. It is easy for people who live at higher altitudes to care less about climate change, but our country is shrinking, the floods becoming worse, and areas close to the sea becoming uninhabitable. 😬
Just curious, do you have any examples of this? Which areas are affected most?
I actually just heard about Medieval Welsh stories about ancient kingdoms sinking after a tsunami. Weird thing is that these events occurred on the Wales side of the British Isles and not the Doggerland side.
Ah, an algorithm neighbour
Sea level rose everywhere. There is a sunken forest in Cardigan Bay; it's usually exposed by low spring tides. If you are ever over there, Borth is the best place from which to get out to the stumps.The story to which you refer relates to Cantre'r Gwaelod and is still taught as part of the children's folk tale canon. As you note, the first written account dates back to the 13th century but I suspect the verbal folk tale originated a lot earlier, with someone's grandparents who lived there.
"Vacation where you just booped the snoots." That literally made me lol
I'm glad you cleared that up about the shark researchers.
Great episode. The sedimentation provides the extraordinary fish populations a resource base until recently.
After the Ice Age, Scandinavia lifted and still does. On the other hand, the southern North Sea area is sinking. And thus also the Netherlands and northern Germany.
Great video! I like the story about doggerland.
Him giggling at 9:26 had me dying! 💀⚰ haha
I've seen a lot of stuff on Doggerland, and I'm pretty sure what he said about the Storegga slide dumping material into the ocean is wrong because it was an underwear event. The continental shelf of the west coast of Scandinavia drops off dramatically, it's extremely steep and goes from continental shelf to straight-up abyss like it's a giant cliff face or something, except on a tectonic scale. An undersea earthquake dislodged an amazing mass of material that sheared off and slid down into the abyss, the displacement of all that material caused a huge wave and, well, you know the rest... poof, the English channel is born!
Thanks for mentioning that the Storegge event was a massive underwater landslide off the continental shelf NW of Norway's Arctic coast.
'an underwear event'😆
Rewatch 5:39 . He says himself it was an UNDERSEA landslide
I had always heard that it was an earthquake too. That's what usually causes tsunamis. Why the hell would landslides crashing into the bay cause tsunamis that big?... PBS with their usual nonsense.
love this channel
A trip to a place called "Doggoland", filled with puppies who need their snouts boop-ed, sounds like the ideal vacation to me.
There is a friesland bordering doggerland
@@rutgerb I had to read your comment a few times before it clicked. 😀 Probably because I know how it's pronounced in Dutch.
Glad to see this guy back
I love this channel.
Imagine if we could really adequately excavate all of these lost coasts and find so much history we’re just completely missing. Are there other species of humans that we’ll never find? Did humans start farming earlier or settling down sooner? I don’t even know if my questions make sense lol
Actually, this video gave me hope for the future...thanks for this channel...
Always sooo good, Thank you!
Nice documentary even if I already knew a lot about Doggerland. But I wonder why they played the German anthem at the beginning when there was nothing specific about Germany in it.
Definitely need a Doggoland for a vacation!
9:39 "laughs through the pain"
Same
Wow so interesting! I definitely wasn't forced to be here because of school! :D
Blake makes such good comedic relief in these episodes
Love the thumb nail title😂
The Storegga Landslide was a submarine landslide of the coast of Norway's west coast. So the illustration at 5:40 ish isn't quite accurate. Part from that, excellent video as usual!
Always interesting, thanks.
I'm from NE England and still live there. Your introduction to Doggerland for the American audience is very good. I hope it encourages more research into the time when it was probably the best place on the planet to live.
What exercises me, as a linguist, is what language(s) was/were spoken there. I'd welcome any research into this, and into the phenomenon known as the NordWestBlock.
It is my - unsubstantiated - belief that the reason English is so weird, compared with other W Germanic languages, must be connected to the language(s) and the NordWestBlock language(s) spoken in Doggerland. I'm too old to pursue this, but perhaps it's not too late for someone else.
Thank you.
I did some research and your hypothesis must be rejected. The tsunami was 8000 years ago, when the ancestors of the English speakers (as well as all other Indo-Europeans) had not arrived in western Europe yet. The neanderthals had already died out much earlier. There may have been some mammals like deer on the island, but no humans or neanderthals. The neanderthals were definitely not present anymore after the last ice age, which was about 10.000 years ago.
Isn't the "weirdness" of English established as being a natural and normal result of languages borrowing bits and pieces from each other over time? English may be an at times inelegant creole of Germanic and Romance languages (with several other languages woven in over time), but if you take the time to look up the history of individual words or bits of grammar they usually make sense in my experience.
(Unrelated to the weirdness of spoken language, I've heard that unlike some other Germanic languages, (British) English didn't have a spelling reform that could have buffed out some of the weirdness in the written language.)
Wtf. Doggerland fell well before Anglo-Saxon was spoken in Britain. You're comparing two completely different stages of human habitation in general. Doggerland fell several thousands of years even before Celtic languages were spoken in Britain. Indo-Europeans didn't even exist in the region.
Old English evolved from old German, with some Celtic holdovers.
Middle English was an amalgamation of French/German due to the Norman conquest and French nobility in England. This was a slow transition from 1066 till today with modern English.
Genders were likely dropped partially due to French/German having different and conflicting genders for different things.
The English 1st started to really try to separate themselves and their language from the French during the Angevin Empire and the Hundred Years War.
English was only formally standardised in the Victorian era and by that time there were also a lot of worldwide influences on the language from the empire and French and Latin were seen as fancy.
North East England generally has more Danish and Dutch influence due to the Danelaw and trade since, whilst the North West has a lot of Irish influence. Especially more recently with the mass exodus of Irish from Ireland during the Potato Famine.
English is just a bastard language, which became how it is through mashing together other languages over time.
Also forget Doggerland, England alone so many different tribes with their own languages prior to the Roman rolling up.
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