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British Atlantis: archaeologists begin exploring lost world of Doggerland (telegraph.co.uk)
48 points by diodorus on Sept 3, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 13 comments



And there was me thinking Doggerland was in a car park near Slough.


Hey, that's where my Maternal mDNA haplotype group has the highest density!

H1 represent!

Some real background about it: http://www.luxegen.ca/genealogy/deep-ancestry-our-maternal-l...


Huh? Wrong thread maybe?


How would this be the wrong thread?


Nope. H1 maternal haplotype has the highest density in the now sunken area of Doggerland. It's explained more in the link.


Very interesting but it seems that to fully explore this and other similar sites they will need to develop underwater robots that are capable of doing underwater what archeologists do on land.


Why is it trying to download HTML files when opening in Chrome?


Technical answer without looking would be that either they're sending the data as an octet stream or Chrome is interpreting it as such. Works for me, go figure.


Atlantis is a place of centuries-old legend that may or may not exist in some unknown location.

Doggerland is an area under the sea that no-one had heard of until some archaeologists hypothesised about it at the beginning of the 20th Century.

The title "British Atlantis" would be more appropriate for somewhere like Lyonesse.


Does this history have anything to do with Neal Stephenson's inspiration for Qwghlm?


I don't think so - that's more based on the Hebrides, with a hint of Faeroes mixed in. Doggerland is in the North Sea, not the North Atlantic, so while an alternate history leaving a few sghrs as remnants of the ancient Doggerland would give him a plausible alternate source for an extra island in the British Isles, the location's wrong (although maybe you could argue Inner Qwghlm is a bit more like a kind of Lindisfarne analog, so... maybe...)


Pretty nationalistic of the newspaper to call it British. It borders most nations of the southern part of the North Sea.


There's an easy way to solve this. Does it have a flag?

I believe that if not then it's part of Britain by default. No flag, no country.

/with apologies to Eddie Izzard.




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