After the last Ice Age, a land called Doggerland joined Britain to mainland Europe. People hunted and fished there. Rising seas swallowed it, and by around 6000 BCE it was mostly gone.
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Found by fishermen
Trawlers in the North Sea have dragged up mammoth bones, tools and a carved harpoon point.
A tsunami
Around 6150 BCE, a huge undersea landslide off Norway sent a tsunami across what was left.
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- Lost lands everywhere. Seas rose about 120 metres after the Ice Age, drowning coastlines where people lived all around the world.
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What covers Doggerland today?
The North Sea. It lies beneath the North Sea.
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