Josh Clark
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And they looked at that peat and they said, everybody, get this.
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.
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.
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.
Well, about toward the beginning of it, I think.
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.
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.
They were finding bits of textile.
They found a Neanderthal skull fragment that they managed to, it was between 70,000 and 40,000 years old.
We'll talk about it a little later, but there's a facial reconstruction.
You know, they love to do like the 3D.
They have the guy smiling, just a huge, big, sweet, goofy smile.