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Europe's lost world : the rediscovery of Doggerland
- Title
- Europe's lost world : the rediscovery of Doggerland / Vincent Gaffney, Simon Fitch and David Smith ; [with a foreword by Tony Robinson].
- Author
- Gaffney, Vincent L.
- Publication
- York : Council for British Archeology, 2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | CC77.U5 G34 2009 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxi, 202 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color); 25 cm
- Summary
- This excellent book, which deserves a wide readership, reports on the work of the North Sea Palaeolandscapes Project, which has been researching the fascinating lost landscape of Doggerland which until after the end of the last Ice Age connected Britain to the continent in the North Sea area. It aims to make the findings available to a general readership, and show just how impressive they have been, with nearly 23,000km2 mapped. The techniques used to reconstruct the landscape are explained, and conclusions and speculation about the climate and vegetation of the area in the Mesolithic offered. It also tells the story of the rediscovery of Doggerland, and the Mesolithic landscape more generally, from the pioneering work of Clement Reid in the nineteenth century, to the research of Grahame Clark and Bryony Coles in the twentieth. It's also worth pointing out just how well produced and illustrated the book is, and one can only hope that it can spark public interest in a comparatively little known phase of our prehistory.
- Series Statement
- CBA research report ; no. 160
- Uniform Title
- Research report (Council for British Archaeology) ; no. 160.
- Subject
- Coastal archaeology > Europe, Northern
- Mesolithic period > North Sea
- Archaeological surveying > North Sea
- Prehistoric peoples > Europe, Northern
- Mesolithic period > Europe, Northern
- 15.32 prehistoric and protohistoric archaeology
- Antiquities
- Archaeological surveying
- Coastal archaeology
- Mesolithic period
- Prehistoric peoples
- Unterwasserarchäologie
- Mesolithikum
- Mesolithicum
- Archeologische vindplaatsen
- Mesolitisk tid > Nordsjön
- Arkeologi > Nordsjön
- Geoarkeologi > Nordsjön
- Klimatologi > Nordsjön
- North Sea > Antiquities
- Europe, Northern > Antiquities
- Atlantic Ocean > North Sea
- Northern Europe
- Doggerbank
- Doggersbank
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-198) and index.
- Contents
- Noah's woods and island Britain -- Through a glass, darkly : the idea of the British mesolithic -- Mapping Doggerland -- Known unknowns! Reconstructing the climate and vegetation of the North Sea basin -- Past worlds--lost worlds--future worlds.
- ISBN
- 9781902771779
- 190277177X
- LCCN
- 2009379827
- OCLC
- ocn276334681
- 276334681
- SCSB-1525213
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library