Breakthrough in Studying Ancient DNA From Doggerland That Separates The UK From Europe

HeritageDaily ^ | July 18, 2020 | University of Warwick

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Thousands of years ago the UK was physically joined to the rest of Europe through an area known as Doggerland. However, a marine inundation took place during the mid-holocene, separating the British landmass from the rest of Europe, which is now covered by the North Sea.

Scientists from the School of Life Sciences at the University of Warwick have studied sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) from sediment deposits in the southern North Sea, an area which has not previously been linked to a tsunami that occurred 8150 years ago...

A number of innovative breakthroughs were achieved by the University of Warwick scientists in terms of analysing the sedaDNA. One of these was the concept of biogenomic mass, where for the first time they were able to see the how the biomass changes with events, evidence of this presented in the paper refers to the large woody mass of trees from the tsunami found in the DNA of the ancient sediment.

New ways of authenticating the sedaDNA were also developed, as current methods of authentication do not apply to sedaDNA which has been damaged whilst under the sea for thousands of years because there is too little information for each individual species. Researchers therefore came up with a new way, metagenomic assessment methodology, whereby the characteristic damage found at the ends of ancient DNA molecules is collectively analysed across all species rather than one.

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Image Credit : Daleyhl

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The rest of the Doggerland keyword, chrono:

• Scientists Find Possible Traces of 'Lost' Stone Age Settlement Beneath the North Sea [2019]
• Life was good for Stone Age Norwegians along Oslo Fjord [2018]
• Mysterious Graves Discovered at Ancient European Cemetery [2016]
• Hazelnut shells found at Skye Mesolithic site [2015]
• Mesolithic site on Skye to be investigated [2015]
• Doggerland: Secrets of ancient land submerged to be revealed [2015]
• Britain Imported Wheat 2,000 Years Before Growing It [2015]
• Ancient underwater forest discovered off Norfolk coast [2015]
• 'How Britain's Atlantis' and its tribes were wiped out by a TSUNAMI triggered by a landslide [2014]
• The real flood: Submerged prehistory [2014]
• Snails Reveal Ancient Human Migration from France to Ireland [2013]
• Biblical-Type Floods Are Real, and They're Absolutely Enormous [2012]
• 'Britain's Atlantis' found at bottom of North sea [2012]
• The Netherlands: Archaeologists Find Habitation Sites in Port of Rotterdam [2011]
• Mesolithic 'rest stop' found at new Sainsbury's site [2011]
• 'Incredibly exciting' rare pre-Ice Age handaxe discovered on Orkney [2011]
• The moment Britain became an island [2011]
• Stone Age remains are Britain's earliest house [2010]
• Neanderthal man was living in Britain 40,000 years earlier than thought [2010]
• Neanderthal may not be the oldest Dutchman [ 370,000 years B.P. ] [2010]
• How discovery off the Norfolk coast holds the key to Norway's past [2010]
• How a prehistoric 'super river' turned Britain into an island nation [2009]
• 9,000-year-old house reveals Stone Age lifestyle [2009]
• When Did Humans Return After Last Ice Age? (UK) [2009]
• Sea gives up Neanderthal fossil [ dredged up from the North Sea ] [2009]
• Scotland's most ancient home found - at 14,000 years old [2009]
• Last Ice Age happened in less than year say scientists [2008]
• Exploration of underwater forest [Loch Tay] [2008]
• Archaeology: The lost world -- Death in the Mesolithic [2008]
• Paleolithic Handaxes From The North Sea (Neanderthals) [2008]
• Undersea slide set off giant flow [2007]
• Stone Age Site Surfaces After 8,000 Years [2007]
• (For all you NOVA buffs) Megaflood 'made Island Britain' [sharp illustrations] [2007]
• Giant flood separates Britain from Europe [2007]
• Megaflood Created Great Divide Between Britain and France [2007]
• Lost World Warning From (Under) North Sea [2007]
• Mapping an Underwater World [ Neolithic riverscapes ] [2007]
• Dating A Massive Undersea Slide (8,100 Year Ago) [2007]
• ARCHAEOLOGY: Stone Age World Beneath the Baltic Sea [2006]
• Biblical-style flood tore Britain from France [2006]
• Biblical-style flood tore Britain from France : Scientists Claim UK/France Land Mass Once joined. [2006]
• Flood Made Britain An Island 'In 24 Hours' [2006]
• (English) Channel's Key Role In Pre-History [2006]
• Stone Age Elephant Found at Ancient U.K. Hunt Site [2006]
• Tools Unlock Secrets Of Early Man [2005]
• Prehistoric Knives Suggest Humans Competed [2005]
• The Mysterious End Of Essex Man (UK) [2005]
• Archaeologists Excited By 500,000-Year-Old Axe Find In Quarry [2004]
• Stone Age Elephant Remains Found (England, Slain By Humans) [2004]
• Northern sea baffles archaeologists [2004]
• Scientists Discover Lost World (8,000 Years Old) [2004]
• Stone Age Sites Found Under North Sea (8,000BC) [2003]
• Migrants Poured Into Britain After Ice Age [2003]
• UK's Oldest Cemetery Identified [2003]
• Earliest British Cemetery Dated (10,000+ Years) [2003]
• Stone Age Settlements Found Underwater In Britain [2003]
• Giant Wave Hit Ancient Scotland [2001]

[dp0622]

Doggerland, huh?

I suppose when it went under water they all paddled their way to land.

I bet their tongues were hanging out by the time they made land.

Sorry.

[BenLurkin]

Interesting

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

Dont google doggers or dogging in the UK. A fair warning.

[Reeses]

a marine inundation took place

They carefully tiptoe through the global warming tulips and hope nobody takes notice.

[alexander_busek]

They carefully tiptoe through the global warming tulips and hope nobody takes notice.

Everyone knows that it was those mid-Holocene SUVs that caused Doggerland to be submerged.

Hail, Atlantis Doggerland!

The continent of Atlantis Doggerland was an island

Which lay before the great flood

In the area we now call the Atlantic Ocean North Sea

So great an area of land, that from her western shores

Those beautiful sailors journeyed

To the South and the North Americas with ease

In their ships with painted sails

To the east south, Africa was a neighbor

Across a short strait of sea miles

The great Egyptian age is but a remnant of The Atlantian Doggerlandian culture

The antediluvian kings colonized the world

All the gods who play in the mythological dramas

In all legends from all lands were from fair Atlantis Doggerland

Knowing her fate, Atlantis Doggerland sent out ships to all corners of the Earth

On board were the Twelve

The poet, the physician, the farmer, the scientist

The magician and the other so-called gods..

Regards,

[dp0622]

So you know I had to look.

Public sex.

Compared to the SICK, SICK, SICK stuff that’s out there, this is perverted but not even in the top 20!

Just the stories that the gay guys I used to work with in graphics departments told me can fill a top 20 over this.

Early on before I was a supervisor there were assigned cubicles and I got stuck next to a gay guy with the SICKEST stories.

He wasn’t a bad conversationalist 98 percent of the time and it’s a long day with no one to talk to. And he was even to the right of center on many issues.

So for that reason (and it wasn’t a good enough one) I waited a while before I told him “please let’s not discuss things of that nature here.”

As expected, he clammed up about most topics after that as he perceived my asking him as an insult.

Oh well.

But WOW what sick things they do!!

[Nifster]

Gee an inundation of water... you mean like a flood??

[SES1066]

When the land-bridge to the Continent flooded, was the 1st canoe across credited as the DISCOVERER of Britain? (smile)

[martin_fierro]

Yep. There it is.

[KarlInOhio]

Dont google doggers or dogging in the UK. A fair warning.

That sounds like the time I wanted info on a sponsor of an ESPN billiards tournament. "Elephant Balls" is not something to Google.

[KarlInOhio]

A whole article about rising water level and no mention of global warming? To quote the world famous teenage scold: “How Dare You!”

[SunkenCiv]

That inundation was the leash of their worries.

[SunkenCiv]

So, you've heard about bowling night, "ninepins"?

[SunkenCiv]

Dr Jenny Collier from the Department of Earth Science and Engineering gives a talk showing how a catastrophic megaflood separated Britain from France hundreds of thousands of years ago, changing the course of British history. Megaflood: how Britain became an island [July 11, 2012]

[dp0622]

Lol

If you are looking for someone witha lot of knowledge of this subject you are barking up the wrong tree :)

Again a fascinating article. One of thousands you have posted. For some reason they make me feel insignificant :-)

All of these peoples and groups and civilizations thought they were the only things that mattered and they were the center of the universe in their time. Obviously they were wrong. I guess if I thought that I would be wrong too.

will the United States one day be a little piece of interesting history and that’s all in a thousand years or so?

I will be dust way before that. Okay I’ve been up all night and now I’m depressed so I’m going to sleep :-)

[Vaduz]

Interesting posts saves a lot of time on the net thanks.

[SunkenCiv]

My pleasure. OTOH, that's a 41 minute video... ;^)