There Used To Be An Island Here

Get a year of Nebula and Curiosity Stream for only $14.79 when you sign up at www.curiositystream.com/joescott Thousands of years ago, when the ocean levels were lower, an inhabited island once existed between Great Britain and Denmark. Who were the people who lived there? And what happened to Doggerland?
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0:00 - What Happened To Doggerland?
2:17 - The Ice Age
3:30 - Late Glacial Maximum
5:05 - The Golden Years of Doggerland
6:29 - The Laurentide Ice Sheet and Lake Agassiz
8:09 - The Storegga Slide
9:49 - North European Enclosure Dam
11:39 - The Irish Famine - Forgotten Atrocities
12:40 - Sponsor - Nebula

[@diyeana]

I'm not really into archeology, but as soon as you bring up cities buried by oceans or sand, I suddenly feel a desire to volunteer with the recovery efforts. It's so intriguing.

[@JOSWAY787]

That means you are into archeology

[@diyeana]

@@JOSWAY787 haha I guess you're right.

[@grossindecency]

You're into archeology and other skullduggery.

[@diyeana]

@@grossindecency shhhh, that was supposed to be a secret.

[@NinJestre]

Sounds like you have a career to pursue

[@gamernick1533]

One of my uni professors (University of Birmingham) was one of the leading specialists in the last days of Dogger Island. He had dedicated years to it and managed to have a Time Team special filmed for it (a docu entertainment series that was a fairly big hit on UK TV). Sadly, he passed away right before it aired but at least it's a bit better known than when he started work on it :)

[@Hollylivengood]

Oh my god, was that y'all? I loved that episode. So interesting for all the many disciplines that had to be organized together.

[@zapfanzapfan]

Love Time Team!

[@Argosh]

He must've been pretty old. Also, I didn't even know they had scientists back then. Were they using their secret technology to hold back the water? /s

[@karenblack2869]

Love that show! I'll look for that episode!

[@WilliamAshleyOnline]

Time Team is awsome.

[@craigknight2764]

I live in norfolk uk and often think about doggerland when I'm at the beach looking for artifacts. My niece found a beautiful handaxe, though I've not been so lucky. I have found some mammoth teeth and imagine them wandering across this huge lost landscape. Maybe there is a big wooden henge down there somewhere 🤔

[@trever9143]

Damn how’d u find a mammoth teeth on the beach

[@rustomkanishka]

Dogger Bank is in a lot of history books due to the events of the Russo Japanese war.

[@Lightning_Lance]

archeologists 1000s of years from now: "what are all these windmills doing underwater?"

[@derrickallen2054]

It boggles my mind when I imagine all the secrets of history that lie beneath the ocean

[@VosperCDN]

And it doesn't have to be that deep under the water either, given that some of the underwater ruins that have been discovered are shallow enough to dive to.

[@joshuarichardson6529]

Unleash the Kracken!

[@AikiraBeats]

It’s the best place to hide anything

[@xisumavoid]

I recently learned about how King Richard III remains were discovered. Its a fascinating story of hard work and good fortune that resulted in the miraculous recovery of his remains. I think you'd enjoy the story and it might make a good video here on your channel Joe! :-)

[@mr.boomguy]

Oh Hallo there Xisuma! Nice to you see watch him too. Shouldn't be surprised, but first time seeing you here :D

[@gerryjamesedwards1227]

"The King in the Car Park", definitely a story worthy of Joe's attention.

[@grimtapestry5585]

Interesting to find you here, Interesting anecdote

[@namename3130]

Small world

[@AdvancedLiving]

If I’m not mistaken, he was under a parking lot and they had it down to what parking space to dig up. Pretty damn accurate for the time that’s past.

[@jonsvanderheul]

@Joescott Hey Joe you mentioned the boat of Pesse at around 8:00 , it was found in the Netherlands near a village called Pesse, a few hundred kilometers lower then the position of Dogger Island. I'm not saying you are completely wrong, but since it is in my back yard, I wanted to mention that. And by the way, I have seen the original boat when I was a boy. At that moment it was not on display in the regional museum of Drenthe, so we where invited to follow the conservator to the museum storage to have a look. It was an amazing sight. Thanks for the great video!

[@cannonrange9977]

This is the second video I've watched on this channel and I'm thoroughly, and delightedly, HOOKED! Joe Scott is just my kind of historian: thorough, with apparent passion for his field, blended with skillful editing to smooth credible information smoothie... and his sense of humor is both well timed and relevant. SUBSCRIBED!

[@troelspeterroland6998]

There is something very fascinating about the fact that the top of Dogger Bank is only 13 metres below sea level, and during storms waves may still break over it in the middle of the North Sea.

[@YellowRambler]

13 meters below sea 🌊 level is something that should have been in the video thanks for sharing that 👍. If this was near china 🇨🇳 they turn it into an island 🏝 again and put a military base on it.

[@rhodrage]

Doggerland is what we call our local Tesco Carpark.

[@OneLeatherBoot]

I was waiting for a Brit comment on dogging. I doubt Joe knows what it is.

[@SportPlusDad]

@@OneLeatherBoot I’m a Yank who’s spent enough time in the UK to Google that in incognito mode but not enough to actually know what it is. 😂

[@SportPlusDad]

And that was a good call. I feel dirty now.

[@OneLeatherBoot]

@@SportPlusDad stay innocent.

[@SportPlusDad]

@@OneLeatherBoot innocence is fine. Naivety is boring. 😜

[@osmia]

I really love how your channel covers so many different topics. I mean the variety of your subjects is just great. Sometimes you cover things that I know about, or know a little bit about, or know nothing about until you tell me about it, and every time you present it captivatingly

[@nathangoddard8115]

The stone pathways that fade into the ocean on many English isles are beautiful but also terrifying. Imagine having a link to a neighbouring area. And then the water just rises up and you could no longer walk there. Probably in your lifetime.

[@FeeshUnofficial]

I live in the Netherlands 😅😅😅 Help

[@allthatforwhat]

I don't think we need to imagine it. It's happening right now.

[@jamielonsdale3018]

@@FeeshUnofficial I feel anxious on your behalf. This century will not be kind to your country, and the proposed project to help save the Netherlands is - and this is not an exaggeration - absolutely batshit insane. The current plan is to build dams across the North Sea from Scotland to Norway and across the English Channel from Cornwall to Brittany; turning the North Sea, English Channel and Baltic Sea into an absolutely gigantic lake.

[@jamielonsdale3018]

@@FeeshUnofficial Heh. Can you tell I made that comment before I had finished watching the entire video?

[@PyrusFlameborn]

@@jamielonsdale3018 we have been fighting the ocean since literally forever. Pliny the Elder was a Roman historian who described the tribes living in modern-day NL as "more people die in the fight against the sea than against each other"

[@davidandrews2972]

On the other side of the UK there's also the story of Cantre’r Gwaelod, a legendary flatland that was supposedly in Cardigan Bay; as well as Lyonesse, a strip of land running out as far as the isles of Scilly, which would have been a lot bigger five thousand years ago and possibly one large island.

[@camillastacey4674]

When you're out in the Scillies it's really easy to see how they were one island once.

[@lunakoala5053]

And here I thought Lyonesse was a Warhammer invention.

[@davidandrews2972]

@@lunakoala5053 It's loosely linked with Arthurian mythology, but also remembered in Cornish folk tales.

[@julesdingle]

you can visit Borth Beach on Cardigan bay and at low tide find the sunken forest.. tree stumps in the sand and mud

[@kamikaziking]

however no tech whatsoever to connect them to an advanced civilisation, hell up to this age anglos are semi barbaric....

[@bjn8937]

They have actually fished up tree trunks an other objects in the area, even anchor stones. Highly interesting matter!

[@Dionysos640]

If you know the subject it is not particularly interesting at all in and of itself, it's just one of hundreds of places on earth where, not long ago, there was land and people where there is now sea and vice versa. Just 10,000 years ago Great Britain itself wasn't an island, it was a peninsula.

[@kanedNunable]

you could walk from england to france back in the day. it was all land.

[@abandonedaccount123]

@@Dionysos640 space isn't interesting anymore because we already live on a planet. why do we need to look at other planets

[@GuinessOriginal]

There was a land bridge to the European continent over 12000 years ago

[@carlosonliones202]

@@Dionysos640 One has to remember USA has only been around since 1776; so this vlogger is justified in his excitement to discover this. I’m waiting for the vlog on First Nation Americans and genocide (apparently one can’t say Native Americans, someone can correct me if they like) or how the giant species were hunted to extinction on the American continent.

[@EdwinvandenAkker]

7:54 Hey, I live in Pesse. It is a small, not too interesting town. But on a small square there is a small monument of this boat. The actual boat is now in the Assen Museum in The Netherlands.

[@BananaTie]

Thank you Joe! Being from Denmark, I often heard Dogger Bank referenced during the weather forecasts on the radio, but it was just "another spot in the ocean" I knew nothing else about. You taught me something very interesting about the area of Europe I grew up in - an interesting fact about the ice age I thought I knew everything about. Thank you for doing great videos!

[@zapfanzapfan]

Dito in Sweden, always on the weather report. And in an old song, Fred Åkerström - Gamla Nordsjön.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

@@zapfanzapfan Same here in the UK. All those odd sounding names of places around the North Sea, in the weather reports on some radio stations.

[@MikeOfNotts]

Dogger bank was always the famous one. It was always a favorite of the shipping forecast.

[@jorriffhdhtrsegg]

@@Thurgosh_OG yeh the shipping forecast: Dogger, Fisher, German Bite, Scilly Automatic, Fastnet what any of it means i just pretend its some alien broadcast

[@ElectroIsMyReligion]

@@zapfanzapfan Interesting since Sweden isn't even remotely close to the Dogger Bank nor a North Sea nation. Well call me surprised.

[@Zeyervv]

Its funny that you mentioned the Pesse Canoe, I was born within 5 miles of where it was found. Have seen it about half a dozen times throughout my life. Never really thought it was significant until you mentioned it😜

[@1laurelei1]

Headed to watch your forgotten atrocities serious right freaking now, thank you very very much!

[@doubtingtom92]

I'm really liking these few videos on ancient history. I'd be enthusiastic about an ancient history series with Joe. You always deliver you dashing smart man. Keep it up 👌🏽

[@robsquared2]

Thus begins the creation of the Dogger triangle, where islands go missing mysteriously.

[@rhodrage]

There's also lots of people in cars

[@ascgazz7347]

@@rhodrage 😂😂😂😂😂😂 I naively drove into a dogging place by accident one night. Saw things I can never unsee. Won’t even go back in daylight 😂

[@DKProduction-oo4yj]

You brits and your freaky Nature 🤣

[@rogerstarkey5390]

@@DKProduction-oo4yj You guys have the same freaky nature, you just have more room 😉

[@goodlookinouthomie1757]

@@ascgazz7347 Oooh that's disgusting. Location...?

[@annando]

Like already said in the comments, the story about Rungholt could be covered in a follow up video. It was wiped out in the flood on January the 16th in 1362. It is estimated that 25,000 people died in that event. The flood changed the landscape of the Northern Sea dramatically. The whole coast line was different afterwards.

[@davidhumphries3413]

this is nuts.. im from ireland, this is the 1st time ive ever heard of dogger island..thanks for sharing

[@PsychedelicSlayer88]

Given you've brought up the whole Atlantis bit, I would love to see you do a dive into the topic of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis, and particularly the ideas brought up by Graham Hancock in his book Fingerprints of the Gods and the evidence brought to life by people like George Knapp. It's a pretty compelling story of a lost civilization of ancient times that has been gaining more momentum in recent years with the discovery of sites like Gobekli Teppi.

[@BlackCeII]

Yes!!! Please cover this!

[@kyletornow1775]

in short, the Earth was hit by a meteor that instantly melted the two mile thick glacier in North America and Greenland. This caused the oceans to flood instantly not gradually as you noted. The proof is now out there. Academia is just slow to believe it. thanks and hope you cover this in more detail next time.

[@joeaugier817]

I've just been working on the windfarm project this year doing preliminary site surveys. I was amazed by how shallow the water depth was there

[@anonomas3530]

It was only a matter of time before you did Dogger Bank! It is a fascinating subject, I work on an aggregate dredger that dredges really old river beds of doggerland for fine sand that then gets used to build infrastructure projects in london. Love the videos 😊

[@ecoideazventures6417]

Heard that the Dutch are specialists in dredging up sand to create islands. are you one of them?

[@anonomas3530]

@@ecoideazventures6417 No British. Work for the big 3. Dutch mainly specialised in maintenance dredging, we do materials for the construction industry, fine sand and shingle. About 5000 ton at a time.

[@joshuagraham9217]

Do you ever dredge up any archeological findings from dogger land? Like old weapons etc

[@zapfanzapfan]

Do you have an archeologist on board?

[@j4y167]

If you'd like to explain more about your job and what exactly you do and how the operation works I'd be very interested to hear it

[@rjmacreadyoutpost3121]

I have several large “rocks” that are actually the remains of an ancient seabed. I dug them out of the side of a hill out in west Texas. Lots of cool stuff buried in the Earth and the sea.

[@glennscott8622]

You got close, Joe, to a much larger story than just Doggerland. Look at the paleo coastline of the British Isles coming out of the Younger Dryas, prior to the first sea level rise that left Doggerland as one (but not the only) vestige. For me, the far more interesting area is the once dry Irish Sea, English Channel and the area south of present day England and Ireland. This area was likely more temperate, and was significantly larger than the later Doggerland. Keep in mind, that Plato dated the inundation of Atlantis to thousands of years before his time. The North Sea tsunami and the eventual final rise of sea levels that took out Doggerland was thousand of years later. Plato said that Atlantis became a mud flat impassable to boats … which is what would have separated the British Isles from Europe after the earlier inundations. Let’s also not forget that anti-religious scientism pushed “gradualism” as Orthodoxy for the last 150 years as catastrophism was viewed as “religious”. That orthodoxy is breaking down rapidly as our understanding of both genetic and geologic history since the rise of anatomically modern humans in northwest Africa (?) some 300,000 years ago has improved. Btw even the USGS is throwing in the towel on no Americans until the Bering land bridge, as sites 30,000 years or older in the Americas are being recognized as well as other genetic flows into South America. Plato’s writing also include a quote from an Egyptian priest about ancient cycles of the rise and fall of civilizations due to catastrophe. The extreme catastrophists want to place a giant Atlantis out on the mid-oceanic ridge and push tortured theories to get it to disappear. The severing of Britain and Ireland from Europe behind an impassable mud flat Channel and North Sea is the sinking of Atlantis … no magic is required. You can go from these significant global sea level rise events to Fermi Solutions as while the Earth is an Eden most of the time, and on the scale of human lifetimes, not so much in terms of longer timelines. The Fermi Solutions universally are expansions upon what we see here on Earth, cycles that destroy fragility and complexity due to cosmic, geologic, biologic and anthropologic knockdowns and bottlenecks.

[@bruderschweigen6889]

South Americans were in the America's weren't the oldest remains on earth of a human found in Chile, I can't remember? But the "Indians" did cross over from Asia

[@Brinta3]

Plato invented Atlantis as a literary device; it is no more real than Hogwarts. Nobody had ever heard of Atlantis until Plato wrote about it. “Aristotle believed that Plato, his teacher, had invented the island to teach philosophy.”

[@CristiNeagu]

​@@Brinta3 That's a silly argument. "No one wrote about Atlantis before the first guy wrote about it." I'm sure that we found a text written earlier by some other guy you'd be telling us how Atlantis was unheard of before that other guy wrote about it, and Plato just copied it. Unfortunately for your little pet theory there is mounting evidence of not only an Atlantis like civilisation existing during and at the end of the last ice age, but there is also strong evidence for cataclysms occurring around that time big enough to wipe a major civilisation out.

[@CristiNeagu]

The most silly counter argument against Atlantis is people expecting pretending like "advanced" means "flying saucers" when they all know full well that "advanced" 12,000 years ago meant "has figured out how villages work".

[@Brinta3]

@@CristiNeagu I think Aristotle, who personally knew Plato, would have known if Plato got it from an earlier source. Aristotle was also very much acquainted with Plato’s writing style and therefore knew that it was just a made up place. But please point me to this mounting evidence you speak of. Where can I read about evidence for the existence of Atlantis?

[@matteoboldizzoni9870]

Fantastic video, as usual Joe! Thanks!

[@shibolinemress8913]

This reminds me of the town of Rungholt on the west coast of what is today northern Germany. It was completely washed away in a single storm that took about 20,000 lives and altered the entire coastline in the 1360's. It's also often called the Atlantis of the north. I think that would make an interesting video as well.

[@paulrockatansky77]

There is also the legend of a fabulously rich port town of Vineta, supposedly located somewhere in the southwest Baltic. First mentioned by a German 11th century chronicler, Adam of Bremen, it was allegedly inhabited by Slavs, Greeks, and other peoples & was apparently one of the biggest port cities in the region, if not Europe. It is said to have either been raided, sacked & destroyed by a Viking fleet... or sunk into the sea by angry gods in punishment for its sins.

[@MugiwaraLion]

@@paulrockatansky77 I never knew of this place, thanks for sharing

[@mariojakel5544]

@@paulrockatansky77 you mean Hedeby? better known as Haithabu the biggest and rich "viking" Town 1066 destroit by slavs

[@victor9sur768]

The proud traditions of doggerland can still be found in green lanes and public car parks across the UK, flashing lights, masks and a sticky situation.....a truly ancient tradition

[@alastairward2774]

Maybe the original Doggerland was like that so God washed the Earth clean of it.

[@amentco8445]

@@alastairward2774 one can only hope it happens again

[@666t]

Dogging

[@robertpavey5615]

I was looking for this comment.

[@JoJo-Hamilton]

Dutch fishing boats were called 'Doggers'... Hi from the UK.

[@inthefade]

I've been writing a song about Doggerland for about 3 years. It's kind of a fantastical take on what it was, but I'm very interested in it from a scientific point of view. I'm glad to see it getting more attention just recently.

[@Neur0nauT]

I'm surprised it took you this long on this one Joe! Nice vid! I live in Northern Ireland. Therefore the ancient geology, and ancient evolutionary history of these Atlantic lands - so close to me, is very interesting in localised human evolution. I mean these islanders of Doggerland may have flourished for centuries, and those who migrated when the Glaciers decided to force them so....must have passed on the tale of a golden land they fled...which turned into a marshland in the end, before being submerged.

[@connectedeurope]

As a Dutch citizen and learned about Doggerland at elementary school even, i think it's nice seeing you cover it. Also covering the NEED project is something nice. Maybe make a video on this as well. Would be a huge project to do it and as calculated it would save a lot of damage money from climate stuff. Only issue is that the North Sea and all the other water will slowly lose their salt contents and the walls will influence the sea currents.

[@veramae4098]

Change the sea currents and we change the heat / cooling cycle.

[@hashtagrex]

the other thing that would save a lot of damage money would be burning fossil corporations to the ground when they actively buy governments to prevent their profits being lost

[@gijskramer1702]

​@@Jack_Russell_Brown it would lose salt the same way the former zuiderzee lost its salt. fresh water rivers feeding it. dont forget the elbe, rijn, maas, seine, thames, schelde, and many other rivers ending here

[@smolmoru]

@@hashtagrex not burning. fire only makes more pollution. contaminate the interior of their buildings with radioactive material, harmless enough to not cause damage within a day or so, but that'd do damage if the corporation buildings stay occupied. and if they find a new location to settle, rinse and repeat. obv I'm not serious(maybe 🤔), but it would still make less pollution than burning down a building while having the same effect ... also abandoned buildings taken back by nature are one of the prettiest things in the world

[@alexafan7]

I could not help but think that this NEED project will cause the exacerbation of rising sea level in rest of the world especially if they choose to pump water out of the dams. So by saving millions of people in the North Atlantic from drowning, the rest of the world will suffer the consequences unless they choose to build dams for themselves. Also, the ecological wildlife in that area will definitely suffer from the lack of currents and decrease in salinity.

[@ddowd75]

In case anyone else is curious about 4:48, a Heinrich event is a natural phenomenon in which large groups of icebergs break off from glaciers and traverse the North Atlantic. (from wikipedia)

[@davidanderson_surrey_bc]

I thought the Heinrich Maneuver was when icebergs reach around a large island in order to force it to cough up a smaller island.

[@FenceThis]

there used to be a part of the continent there and it’s known as Doggerland

[@ebjebj629]

no shit

[@WattWood]

Really ? I am surprised that wasn't mentioned in the video or description

[@BibtheBoulder]

There is an area local to me where doggers go. Is this the same?

[@effexon]

yey! vikings had unsinkable aircraft carrier midpoint to continent and british island. This is what I thought, north sea aint so friendly and it is long way from norwegian coast.

[@twistedcookinglady]

Great video. I've heard about Doggerland many times but this is the 1st time I've ever heard anyone call it an island. Interesting. Oh hey, I'm from Dallas area too.

[@ztechrepairs]

A video on how the Chesapeake Bay was formed would be cool!

[@model101t800]

A Dogger is a Dutch fishing boat not Danish. The Pesse canoe was found deep inland at Assen, not the north sea. Most of the sea level rising in the North Sea is because of isostatic rebound 😅

[@egbertjanemmens5432]

It was found in Pesse not in Assen

[@model101t800]

@@egbertjanemmens5432 Yes, stupid mistake, I should have said that you can see him in Assen, it's obvious that it was found in Pesse

[@davidh.4944]

Isostatic rebound results in land level rising, not sea level.

[@PolarBear4]

I live in the north east of England and after storms it's not uncommon for the Petrified Forests to be visible on the beaches (maybe they were joined to Doggerland?). It's a bit surreal the first time seeing what look like amazingly preserved tree stumps in the middle of the beach but it becomes one of those things that's just taken for granted when you live with it. Much like stone circles, castles, Roman ruins, and other stone age things when there's loads around you! Someone found an Auroch (ancient ancestor to the cow) skull a few weeks ago. Bits wash up every now and then. Auroch were thought to have become extinct around the British Isles about 4000 years ago so I wonder if they were wandering around on Doggerland before it went under water.

[@kitefan1]

Thanks for dong a show on Doggerland. You left out my favorite story. The archeologists found a village where there is evidence that after it submerged people went out and left offerings at this former homeplace for many years.

[@davidanderson_surrey_bc]

Well, if you already have a salacious bone, I guess you're going to dong a show.

[@kitefan1]

@@davidanderson_surrey_bc Nope just cant tyoe

[@ArticBlueFox96]

Thinking about the peoples who lived on Doggerland makes me think of all kinds of peoples throughout history (I highly recommend reading The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow).

[@milesmedia]

Something to consider when it comes to how "advanced" a lost civilization was is that what is considered advanced increases over time. The most basic city would seem advanced to other hunter/gatherers.

[@JNCressey]

Although, it's clear in the story of Atlantis that they supposed to have such extensive use of metals that they can afford to cover their walls in various metals. So a stoneage basic city wouldn't be a match.

[@flexabigg1]

I so love all your stuff!

[@ClannCholmain]

Porcupine Bank is an area of the Irish shelf, on the fringes of the Atlantic Ocean approximately 200 kilometres (120 mi) west of Ireland. The relatively raised area of seabed, 200 m below sea level at its highest, lies between the deep-water Porcupine Seabight and Rockall Trough. The name comes from the bank's discovery in 1862 by HMS Porcupine, a British sail and paddle-wheel ship used mainly for surveying. The northern and western slopes of the bank feature species of cold-water corals. According to Dr. Anthony Grehan of the National University of Ireland, Galway, the virtually untouched site could benefit dwindling fish stocks and possibly aid medical research. "These are by far the most pristine, thriving and hence spectacular examples of cold-water coral reefs that I’ve encountered in almost ten years of study in Irish waters. There is also evidence of recent recruitment of corals and many other reef animals in the area suggesting this area is an important source of larvae supply to other areas further along the Porcupine Bank." - Dr. Anthony Grehan, In an 1870 paper presented to the Geological Society of Ireland, Mr W Fraser suggested that these reefs mark the site of the sunken island of Hy-Brasil.

[@cuddles31]

The amount of research and effort that went into this really shows. Super interesting. Great job 👍

[@miepmiepzoefzoef]

Really? I did not even watch, because the Atlantis fable is in the thumbnail and I like my reality real.

[@dedgzus6808]

@@miepmiepzoefzoef Weird that you still clicked on it and decided to comment. nerd.

[@klatzig]

🤦‍♂️the amount of mistakes in the research amounts to an F, but ok…

[@ericvulgate]

Honestly that annoyed me too but he's keeping it real never fear.

[@Linuxpunk81]

What reading a Wikipedia article?

[@Brian-uy2tj]

Not quite "Dry" land. Although there probably was dry land, Peat is typically formed when beavers dam a creek, form a pond where organic matter is deposited over time, the pond fills in, becomes acidic and pickles the organic matter. Also lakes can fill in over time in the same way.

[@coreywiley3981]

That's so mind boggling to me how for long periods it was covered with water then dried for long periods, then was covered in water again, same with the Sahara alternating between green and desert periods. That dramatic transformation of the landscape over such long periods of time really fascinates me.

[@Akislav1990]

Atlas Pro has a great video on this as well. Besides Doggerland, he's exploring also other sunk lands around the world.

[@Nicitel94]

Just watched it the other day! Recommend.

[@joescott]

I can vouch for that. Great channel.

[@joescott]

I can vouch for that. Great channel.

[@Akislav1990]

@@joescott Great Video btw. You still add great value to topics I've seen before. Glad to be a subscriber of yours for years.

[@adammichaleski3386]

Great to see a little history of Lake Agassiz. Long time viewer of your vids Joe, I grew up in Dauphin, Manitoba which is right beside Riding Mountain, which was carved by the glacier. Lots of interesting terrain back home.

[@edwardbontrager9721]

Best Doggerland video I’ve seen. Thanks Joe

[@DVSx86]

thanks for great content!

[@peterme]

Great video as always. Couldn't help but notice you used a picture from Tromsø when talking about saving the livelihoods of people living along the north sea. Unfortunately Tromsø is way further north than the dam you mentioned, so it unfortunately wouldn't help us much up here. So if you want to experience Tromsø you should visit while it's still above water! Or maybe not, flying or taking a boat here probably just hastens our doom..

[@darren8453]

Are you sure he wasn't talking about the Sami people?

[@peterme]

@@darren8453 pretty sure, mostly because there was nothing in the context that implied he was talking about a specific group of people. Besides, why would a picture of Tromsø be used to represent the Sami?

[@gabrielsears9897]

this morning I woke up with terrible anxiety but I've been using Joe's videos as a small island of refuge from this mental storm

[@lybiwinzenz2880]

You might be deficient in Vitamin B1

[@lybiwinzenz2880]

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[@geekdivaherself]

Have your doctor also check your vitamin D levels. You may need more D if you spend a lot of time inside and/or if you are in a cloudy climate. It helped me a lot! I wish you well! From always indoors in Seattle.

[@gaywizard2000]

Just remember we'll all be dead one day and this life will be but a fleeting dream. It's all a joke you know, it's absurdly stupid, life!

[@desperadox7565]

@@gaywizard2000 And too fucking short.

[@guillaumemaurice3503]

Thank you for sharing this that was an interesting topic.

[@RobVespa]

This video is fascinating. Thank you! "There used to be an island here." That's how I feel about where I presently reside. The locale, for the most part, could be referred to as "No one you want to listen to tours here, USA". Yeah, no. Aside: An area of land behind where I grew up looked like the bottom of an ocean from millions of years ago crossed with a deep dessert. It was filled with all sorts of fossils. It was amazing. Until it was, of course, bulldozed to place a swath of cheaply constructed awful cookie cutter houses that paid no heed to the area, the people who'd live there or the most basic of planning or design tenets.

[@lesleyb26]

From the north east coast of the UK, we have a petrified forest under our beach and that's only a bit north of dogger. Apparently the tsunami hit all along the coast where I live destroying land and life 😬 Brilliant coverage thanks 👍

[@kitefan1]

I think that was the storegga slide which Joe mentioned.

[@lesleyb26]

Thanks, might need to read up on it. Could keep me awake at night tho 😬

[@kitefan1]

@@lesleyb26 I live near New England, USA coast and they are threatening us with an underwater landslide from somewhere in the Canary Islands. 😱

[@lesleyb26]

@kitefan1 Nature is it's own boss isn't it and we forget that sometimes 😬

[@tigrecito48]

2:06 i watched a documentary where it was saying they thought that france & england used to be joined together by the same limestone hills that make the white cliffs of dover... and during the ice age, huge iceshelves were there, which made the north sea more like a fresh water lake than a sea.. and water levels would rise and fall.. and they had a theory that at one point when the water levels were particularly high, the water came cascading thru the english channel forming very quickly this channel cutting a huge gorge thru there and therefore at some point the water level would have dropped dramatically... the level could have gone up and down in various points in history so a certain few thousand years it might have been boggy & lower water levels than the atlantic etc..

[@teeess9551]

First time viewer, long time KZbinr here. I knew within less than a minute of seeing this video that I should subscribe ;) That means he's good. I work in film and TV--not that that means jack these days; but you can still notice quality content when you see it. Not necessarily in the production values or content, which are obviously fine, but in the delivery. Nice.

[@VanceWarren83]

Joe, I would love to see you do an episode on the Minoan's and their possible link to Atlantis. The Minoan's and their technology, was centuries more advanced than what anyone else had.

[@Dionysos640]

Atlantis is fictional

[@abandonedaccount123]

@@Dionysos640 haha that's what you say! and... and... thousands of experts... but i want to believe

[@GuinessOriginal]

@@Dionysos640 but cities and civilisations that got flooded aren’t, and they’re probably what the myth was based on

[@VanceWarren83]

@@Dionysos640 I don’t think it was fictional at all. The name, yeah completely made up by the Greeks. But an island with advanced technology for it’s time, being destroyed…. The Minoans were exactly that. The eruption of Thera and the subsequent 12 distinct tsunami events which followed over the course of four days, was astronomical. That eruption changed the Mediterranean forever, in less than a week.

[@martinwilliams9866]

​@@Dionysos640So is your statement, maybe!

[@ianmccallen2702]

This was fascinating. DNA study for my family showed markers from the Doggerland area. Soon as I saw the thumbnail, I had to watch.

[@Lootbot90]

Just received my diploma for BA in anthropology today and I love your videos too. I'm a new fan.

[@mitchellminer9597]

Congratulations!

[@Lootbot90]

@@mitchellminer9597 TY!

[@ekconnors6162]

congratulations!

[@VoIcanoman]

6:35 You can still find shoreline features of glacial Lake Agassiz where I live in Manitoba (Lake Agassiz didn't form or drain in one go, so there are phases of the lake that lasted long enough to create multiple shorelines*). I learned that fact (and have since spotted a few ancient beaches in the middle of nowhere) when I studied geolimnology (part of my minor in geological sciences) with the world's foremost expert on the lake, Dr. James (Jim) Teller. He's retired now, but lives in my neighbourhood, so I bump into him on occasion when I'm out walking the dog. *Technically-speaking, Lake Agassiz didn't drain completely - Lake Winnipeg, Lake Manitoba, and Lake Winnipegosis are all remnants of this lake that managed to survive.

[@kenlounders5399]

The glaciers and ice was so thick , it weighed down on the continental shelf they sat on . This tilted the shelf of land where doggerland was up and created bogs and maybe some forests. As the ice melted the shelf of land which was pushed up by the weight of the ice now was sinking below sea level . Very little of doggerland being submerged had to do with the amount of ice melting , but more to do with the weight of the ice not pushing down on the shelf and and no longer tilting doggerland up.

[@joyl7842]

The Dutch created an entire province in the middle of an inland sea in The Netherlands (the province of Flevoland) a little over 100 years ago. Now over 400.000 people live there in many modern cities. There's a lot of farmland and even an international airport. I'd say it's worth spending money on reclaiming land, as long as you let the Dutch do it.

[@joyruppert4710]

God created the world. The Dutch created the Netherlands!

[@feryth]

What stops the Dutch from taking over the newly drained North Sea?

[@jamielonsdale3018]

@@feryth Nothing new. Where do you think Flevoland is? What do you think they reclaimed it from?

[@rieksstevens]

and what s the relevance to this topic ? other then look at us !

[@RobMoerland]

@@feryth The harbour of Rotterdam is extended into the North Sea. So no, we didn't stop

[@solomonsmith3658]

Thanks for the video on the Irish famine Joe! I’m British and at school we still learn about the famine just being caused by the disease. Thankfully being half Irish I’ve always been aware of the real cause of all the deaths.

[@solomonsmith3658]

Also, I’d love to see a video on El Dorado.

[@kickoutmedia9484]

Have to agree! As late as the early 2000's schools here we're still teaching about a historical famine caused by potato blight. But only in recent years the documents, detailing the huge export of goods from the country have revealed it was a massive case of neglect towards the Irish people by its own government in Westminster. The population in 1847 was estimated at 8.5 million people and when I was still in school in the 90s it was still only recovering at 3.7 million People. Now stands at a comfortable 5.15 million people.

[@erikaverbeck7543]

I have done a lot of research on Doggerland, it is fascinating

[@xornxenophon3652]

Robert E. Howard wrote a lot about continents that sank under the sea in his famous stories about Conan the Barbarbian; and that was at a time when continental drift was still considered a rather esoteric and disputed idea...

[@selynshuniji9961]

Not sure what you did differently this time, but made me actually consider curiosity stream / nebula ... Great video as always, thanks

[@pascalbruyere7108]

Probably the ‘salacious bone’ thing…

[@kyle__riker]

You've mixed many of my favorite subjects into one video! I love that you were able to combine geography, geology, and archeology!

[@davidanderson_surrey_bc]

Also zoology, oceanography, and climatology.

[@mobilephil244]

North sea dam would be a seriously impressive and useful thing .. but it would also be the most obvious and vulnerable target for every crank and extremist able to put together a few tons of explosives.

[@carldooley9344]

For the last couple years, I have had a couple subnautical anomalies on my wall. Would anyone care to guess as to their provenance? Port Royal Jamaica at 40 feet deep, Port of Julius Rome at 5 meters deep, Cleopatra's Palace at Antirhodos at 5 meters deep, the Bimini Road at 18 feet deep, the Yonamuni Monument at 26 meters deep and 91 feet tall, Cambay India at 120 feet deep, and the Baltic Sea Anomaly at 100 meters deep...

[@BYOTools]

I’ve been binging your channel for months and I must say that I find your channel truly enjoyable on so many levels. Your personality, enthusiasm, sarcasticness, and so on are so perfect for all the subject matter you bring up. Thank you so much for producing such quality content and keep up the great work.

[@davidanderson_surrey_bc]

I've never Binged a channel, but I've Googled a lot of them.

[@geekdivaherself]

@@davidanderson_surrey_bc I have a Duck Duck Go at them.

[@borisgalos6967]

It's surprising that the collapse of the ice dams holding back Lake Agassiz didn't result in a similar Channeled Scabland geology as we see in Eastern Washington from the ice dam collapses that drained Lake Missoula. That kind of unique geology would make it relatively easy to see how that massive lake drained.

[@WaukWarrior360]

Makes sense when you consider the "Atlantic Coast Megalith builders". Also fits Platos 'description' of Atlantis. Beyond the Pillars of Hericles (Straits of Gibraltar) and the shape/formation of Stonehenge and other henge's match the description of the 'city' itself.

[@YouTubeAlex666]

Keep doing what you do x ❤

[@Saljen]

At -300 feet sea level, Doggerland isn't just an island but a landmass that connects the UK, Ireland, and the mainland of Europe. UK and Ireland were not islands 12,000+ years ago during the last ice age.

[@krashd]

Why do most videos on KZbin these days have someone like you who comes and points out stuff that was stated in the video? It's intriguing me because I've only noticed it this past year or so.

[@the1khronohs40]

So facinating! Beeing Norwegian, this is fairly local to me! I really enjoyed learning about this a bit more! Thank you, Scott!

[@MrSteel7]

🐝 ing Norwegian?

[@the1khronohs40]

@@MrSteel7 Hahaha! Didn’t catch that!

[@ulazygit]

The enclosure dam project was proposed back in the 1930s … highly technical and closes off many sea-going ports …

[@Paul-hl8yg]

Doggerland existed before sea levels raised, what is now the North sea. The UK & mainland Europe once connected by this stretch of land. It is obvious that the UK was higher, a plateau of land otherwise it too would have been drowned. Many artifacts have been found on the bottom of the North sea including hundreds of thousands of mammoth tusks. The once dry solid earth Doggerland ended about 40,000 years ago & therefore early hunter gatherers tools are also on that sea bed. In the English channel near Cornwall, ancient tin mines now sit at the bottom of the channel. The Romans state they could wade out knee high to the isle of Wright which is an island near UK mainland in the channel, now only accessible by boat. The water levels have risen dramatically even since the last 2000 years & hugely over the last 40,000 years. 🇬🇧

[@ScienceMagicStudios]

You have to remember Stonehenge at one time did not look so rough, all of the stones were perfectly cut and polished, revealing all of the cool colors of the different stones

[@kitefan1]

Are we/they sure that it was completed?

[@ScienceMagicStudios]

@@kitefan1 I have no frickin clue

[@jacktravers5049]

There was a far bigger more complex henge in Ireland at one point. Made of wood! Also you have to imagine the Palace complexes these ancient monuments represented in their time, they had towns built around them, there is much yet we don't know. They were contemporaneous and built in such a way as to be aligned over miles and centuries. I really don't understand the dismissal of these sites for the grandeur of the pyramids, just takes a bit more imagination.

[@jorriffhdhtrsegg]

@@jacktravers5049 arguably too that stonehenge nearby counterpoint woodhenge may have been more impressive in scale too

[@stephendavidson7256]

I don't think Joe will reply to this comment or even see it, but thank you for all the great videos sir. You are a smart, funny, and really good video maker and I have learned a lot from you, I hope to see many more videos I been watching for so long and your work just stays great and never changes. I appreciate your hard work and you seem like a genuine cool guy so thank you again sir.

[@nocomment2468]

There’s a beautiful piano piece by Claude Debussy called “La Cathedrale Engloutie”, or The Engulfed Cathedral. It’s based on this Breton myth that on clear days at low tide, a castle can be seen rising from the ocean, which then engulfs it again as the tide rises. It’s a beautiful piece, and I wonder if the myth has anything to do with this disappearing island.

[@nekotranslates]

Similar to Hy Brasil (Irish legend) where on a day at low tide, can see top of a cathedral or some building

[@Jupiter9331]

The first Brexit 🤣🤣 as a Scottish person I love this. Awesome video Doggerland is quite a popular thing to learn about here same with the various stone circles and a possible Tsunami that happened somewhere in England I think? I learned a lot I didn't know though so thanks Joe.

[@nic2312]

So happy to hear you visited us in Ireland 😊🇮🇪 I hope you didn't pay an arm and a leg for everything over here

[@joescott]

Well I still have all my appendages so it wasn’t too bad. 😄 Actually we loved it there.

[@squirlmy]

@@joescott but... do you have Irish heritage? I went in '88 when pubs were still very smoky, and Guinness warm. Good Times.

[@bruderschweigen6889]

@@squirlmy They'd probably spit in your drink if you told them you have Irish heritage lol

[@mikeximenez5285]

Here in america we are used to being screwed if we need to buy anything. Wouldn’t be surprised to find it cheaper. I know I choose payouts in euros on my phone apps because I can get more with it 😂🎉

[@sebastianfiel1715]

Joe you have like 1,4 million subs but it would be fair to say that you're still the most underrated content creator. Excellent work

[@Samld1200]

Wow that’s so cool. My parents talk about driving to Doggerland every Friday night

[@RuinDweller]

@11:00 When you control the inflow of a body of water you can often cause levels to sink by just reducing the amount of water you let in over time.

[@vincentochs637]

I was feeling down today, didn't go to work, and here you show up and change my day love you and your content thank you

[@kellikrueger7685]

Hi there. Just wanted to say I'm sorry you've been so down and I hope you're able to get back to a good place very soon. Keep your head up and continue moving forward. I completely understand and care. Even though I don't know you. You are important and valuable. Please don't forget that.

[@davidanderson_surrey_bc]

@@kellikrueger7685 Ochs Lives Matter!

[@geekdivaherself]

I wish you well!

[@vincentochs637]

@@kellikrueger7685 your kind words are appreciated more than you know . knowing a stranger took time from their day to lift me up feels amazing thank you so much

[@Gu1tarJohn]

I once found an Ammonite fossil in our side yard when I was a kid in Lucas, TX. Our dirt is black, it was pink. Also found fossilized corral in the neighborhood. I was really into geology in elementary school.

[@rogerstarkey5390]

Any area that is large, flat and sandy was probably sea floor at some point.

[@geekdivaherself]

That's SO COOL!

[@gaywizard2000]

Are you in it still?

[@SD_Alias]

Very interesting! Being born and grown up in Ahrensburg Germany we had that topic in school and visited the "Tunneltal" were these hunter gatherers lived… Had that story almost forgotten over the years and was surprised that our teacher did not tell us about the Doggerland. It was in the 80s and perhaps it was not so know except for people at university…

[@Yvaelle]

As bad as Irish Famine was, it wasn't the worst atrocity since Doggerland sank. The British Isles were hit particularly hard by the Black Death, over 60% of the population died as a result. By contrast, 'only' 20% of Ireland died during the Famine, and a further 40% emigrated.

[@pascalbruyere7108]

Joe, could you look into this idea that just came up in my crazy brain: if we filled places that are lower than sea level (by building canals, connections to the seas and oceans), could we mitigate sea level rise?

[@fryertuck6496]

What sea level rise? You believing climate crisis nonsense?

[@rogerstarkey5390]

Quick estimate. Water covers 2/3rds (0.66) of the planet, or twice the land area If the "lower than sea level" area was 1% (0.01) of the land area and was 5 m deep. That would lower the *Sea level* by.... (0.01÷2) x 5 = 0.01m. 1 cm About 3/8"" Answer.... No

[@FrankDijkstra]

Just look at the Netherlands. That's a good example of that.

[@peterschlange1832]

Our combined understanding of the world comes from us standing on the shoulders of giants. These people are part of the foundation of that knowledge. Without their sacrifice we literally wouldn't be here. Much respect to ancient humans. As much as I yearn for the future, our collective past still leaves me in wonder.

[@veramae4098]

If the gd Romans hadn't started the burn of the Great Library (wait, there's more) we'd be approximately 3,000 years ahead of where we are now. Then the Christians came along, and "Oh! Pagan! Bad! Burn it!" and eventually it was all gone. Librarian (in case you didn't guess), MI / US

[@captaincodpiece3263]

I live in east Anglia and when I take a trip to the coast I find it fascinating to think when I look out over the sea that there was once a large island out there, and if the sea level dropped just 20m , about 60 ft., some of it would reappear.

[@jamesbarisitz4794]

A rocket sled of facts built into this one. Facinating throughout! 👍 😃

[@HalfdeadRider]

Just going by the thumbnail (will still be watching of course to see if you mention it, plus anyway), it once was full on land between the UK and mainland Europe, not just an island.

[@AdIgnem]

The land slide causing a tsunami concept is actually very interesting. I just watched a documentary where scientists are concerned about a similar event occurring from an explosion of Kīlauea, possibly washing away Honolulu and the rest of the island chain.

[@justanotherguy4202]

The possible slip of the cacadia subduction zone is also pretty scary and we have data from the last major slip.

[@tim40gabby25]

@@justanotherguy4202 Canary Island cliff rupture along glass-like fissures would engulf New York 6hrs later. 😶

[@sjaakderksen531]

Agreed. Actually more interesting than the breaking of the ice wall causing the first Doggersbank decline. It's a far more unpredictable phenomenon and it makes you kind of think how well we know the risk of landslides from the continental shelve on these particular spots. I mean if the storm surge of 53 can cause so much havoc in this area ...

[@justanotherguy4202]

Washington state released data that claims earthquake* (land slips) are caused by water (very wet soil, softer rock) being pulled beneath the mantle and getting stuck on more dense Rocky material.

[@andrews042]

Plato's description of Atlantis' location puts it closer to the Azores. There are several sea mounts in the area that have geologic features indicating they were once above sea level such as beach sand. One of them was actually called Atlantis sea mount but it was changed to Atlantic.

[@PhilLaird]

I'm sure you're familiar then of the Paluxy River in Glenn Rose. I used to explore there all the time back during the late 1960s.

[@JimJWalker]

It was the Azores. Not just because that is EXACTLY where Plato described, but the hot/cold springs Plato describes exist there, the bullfighting exists there, the aquifers exist there, the red/black/white stones Plato describes are there, and step pyramids are also located in the Canaries islands which would have been easily accessible if the Azores' basin were above sea level.