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Josh Clark

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

And they looked at that peat and they said, everybody, get this.

Stuff You Should Know
Doggerland: Lost at Sea

That peat was formed in a freshwater environment, meaning that it could only have been formed above the sea's surface on land, in a wetland, but on land.

Stuff You Should Know
Doggerland: Lost at Sea

And the harpoon being in there means that a human was on land above the sea surface when they were using it, and they lost it in the peat.

Stuff You Should Know
Doggerland: Lost at Sea

And then, even better, the British Museum gets in touch with Pilgrim Lockwood after this, and he's like, well, well, well, look who's come crawling back.

Stuff You Should Know
Doggerland: Lost at Sea

Well, about toward the beginning of it, I think.

Stuff You Should Know
Doggerland: Lost at Sea

Well, it's in the area.

Stuff You Should Know
Doggerland: Lost at Sea

It's a squishy one.

Stuff You Should Know
Doggerland: Lost at Sea

And the other thing that's so exciting about Doggerland and finding stuff out about it is we have very little information about Mesolithic people of this area of the time.

Stuff You Should Know
Doggerland: Lost at Sea

In addition to all that, Chuck, there were some more things that came up during the 20th century that were like, there's something really interesting down there.

Stuff You Should Know
Doggerland: Lost at Sea

They were finding bits of textile.

Stuff You Should Know
Doggerland: Lost at Sea

They found a Neanderthal skull fragment that they managed to, it was between 70,000 and 40,000 years old.

Stuff You Should Know
Doggerland: Lost at Sea

We'll talk about it a little later, but there's a facial reconstruction.

Stuff You Should Know
Doggerland: Lost at Sea

You know, they love to do like the 3D.

Stuff You Should Know
Doggerland: Lost at Sea

They have the guy smiling, just a huge, big, sweet, goofy smile.