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British Atlantis: archaeologists begin exploring lost world of Doggerland
- Luc 11y agoPretty nationalistic of the newspaper to call it British. It borders most nations of the southern part of the North Sea.
- Nursie 11y agoThere's an easy way to solve this. Does it have a flag? I believe that if not then it's part of Britain by default. No flag, no country. /with apologies to Eddie Izzard.
- noja 11y agoAnd there was me thinking Doggerland was in a car park near Slough.
- dogma1138 11y agoWhy is it trying to download HTML files when opening in Chrome?
- iLoch 11y agoTechnical answer without looking would be that either they're sending the data as an octet stream or Chrome is interpreting it as such. Works for me, go figure.
- kleer001 11y agoHey, that's where my Maternal mDNA haplotype group has the highest density! H1 represent! Some real background about it: http://www.luxegen.ca/genealogy/deep-ancestry-our-maternal-line/ http://www.luxegen.ca/genealogy/deep-ancestry-our-maternal-l...
- dguaraglia 11y agoHuh? Wrong thread maybe?
- ChristianBundy 11y agoHow would this be the wrong thread?
- kleer001 11y agoNope. H1 maternal haplotype has the highest density in the now sunken area of Doggerland. It's explained more in the link.
- tgflynn 11y agoVery interesting but it seems that to fully explore this and other similar sites they will need to develop underwater robots that are capable of doing underwater what archeologists do on land.
- arzt 11y agoDoes this history have anything to do with Neal Stephenson's inspiration for Qwghlm?
- jameshart 11y agoI don't think so - that's more based on the Hebrides, with a hint of Faeroes mixed in. Doggerland is in the North Sea, not the North Atlantic, so while an alternate history leaving a few sghrs as remnants of the ancient Doggerland would give him a plausible alternate source for an extra island in the British Isles, the location's wrong (although maybe you could argue Inner Qwghlm is a bit more like a kind of Lindisfarne analog, so... maybe...)
- frobozz 11y agoAtlantis is a place of centuries-old legend that may or may not exist in some unknown location. Doggerland is an area under the sea that no-one had heard of until some archaeologists hypothesised about it at the beginning of the 20th Century. The title "British Atlantis" would be more appropriate for somewhere like Lyonesse.