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Josh Clark

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Stuff You Should Know
Doggerland: Lost at Sea

Right on the money.

Stuff You Should Know
Doggerland: Lost at Sea

But this is a very obscure theory.

Stuff You Should Know
Doggerland: Lost at Sea

People weren't paying much attention to it.

Stuff You Should Know
Doggerland: Lost at Sea

Even in academic circles, it was pretty obscure.

Stuff You Should Know
Doggerland: Lost at Sea

But then there was a discovery in 1931 that really grabbed the archaeologists in the area by the throat and shook them until their tongues turned blue and hung out of their mouths.

Stuff You Should Know
Doggerland: Lost at Sea

And it said, look at this.

Stuff You Should Know
Doggerland: Lost at Sea

This is important.

Stuff You Should Know
Doggerland: Lost at Sea

I would say that's a hotel check-in name, but it's just a little too eye-catching.

Stuff You Should Know
Doggerland: Lost at Sea

Yeah, it is pretty suspicious, actually.

Stuff You Should Know
Doggerland: Lost at Sea

Yeah, they're like pretty cool.

Stuff You Should Know
Doggerland: Lost at Sea

I mean, like, don't throw it back.

Stuff You Should Know
Doggerland: Lost at Sea

Because it was very clearly fashioned by humans.

Stuff You Should Know
Doggerland: Lost at Sea

I think in addition to just being smoothed out to be fashioned into a harpoon, I think it was decorated as well.

Stuff You Should Know
Doggerland: Lost at Sea

So there's no arguing that it was a human artifact.

Stuff You Should Know
Doggerland: Lost at Sea

It had been found in a moor log, so a chunk of peat.

Stuff You Should Know
Doggerland: Lost at Sea

And then somebody along the way, another married couple, Harry and Margaret Godwin, said, let us see that peat.

Stuff You Should Know
Doggerland: Lost at Sea

We have a little hypothesis we want to test.