Josh Clark

And apparently there's a good working relationship between archaeologists who are studying Doggerland and the trawling fishermen who bring in these finds.

Yeah.

Because before it was like, hey, check out this, what do they call them, moorlogs?

This big chunk of tooth.

Yeah, moorlogs.

And look, there's probably, what, a mastodon tooth?

Is that what that is?

And they'd say, well, where did you get this?

And you'd be like, I don't know.

I was over, I don't know, somewhere in the east-north sea.

And that didn't help very much.

But now that they've kind of formed this relationship with these fishermen, the fishermen are like, well, here's the GPS data for where we pulled that up.

And now our underwater archaeologists can go and look and say, like, yep, this seems like a good site to explore.

The problem is this.

This area is so covered in sediment that even for underwater archaeology, this is a challenging place to find artifacts because there's so many rivers that flow into the North Sea.

And unlike rivers that flow into the ocean, that sediment doesn't just disperse.

It gets trapped between the UK and Europe.

So it just settles and there's a lot of sediment on top.

That was a happy episode, too.

Yeah, because those animals were adapted to the Ice Age.