Chuck Bryant

But they said, you know, they're basically like anyone else from that time in that place, from that era and area.

Man, this is really just fitting together like a glove, you know?

They were, you know, carving things from stone, carving things from antlers.

We have direct evidence of both in animal bones.

They were wearing animal skins.

But they said they think eventually, like you said, they decided like, hey, this place is nice.

Let's set up camp here and maybe even farmed there.

Yeah, and I guess we should talk about why it's underwater.

This, you know, I think we already kind of gave it away that it didn't happen all at once.

It happened over hundreds of thousands of years, little by little.

Glaciers are melting, sea levels are rising.

And there's, you know, like I said, estimates anywhere from 5,000 to 8,000 years ago, or 7,000 rather, of when people think it finally, like, you know, was completely submerged.

And it may not, you know, it may have become so uninhabitable, you know, long before that, maybe even thousands of years before that.

Well, I mean, there's a couple of theories.

There's a tsunami theory that says about 8000 years ago, there were a bunch of massive tsunamis that, you know, pummeled the coast of Britain and completely wiped out Doggerland.

And they were caused by these submarine landslides in the Norwegian Sea called the Strega Slides.

But Gaffney was like, I don't think it was that actually.

I think it was climate change because I think Doggerland itself, like he didn't doubt the tsunamis happened, but he said, I think Doggerland itself was kind of protected by the wooded hilly terrain.

Yeah.

Yeah, I saw even, you know, potentially up to two meters per century.