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About 8,000 years ago, many civilizations thrive on levels that are now immersed by the North and Baltic Sea.
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Scientists from various Northern European research institutions are now subjected to an important study to analyze these regions and find indications of these previous civilizations.
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The time is essentially, since many of the regions, the scientists hope, are essentially The epoch.
Around 8,000 to 6,000 BC BC, North and Baltic Sea … were not a sea at all. Instead, they were huge levels in which old human civilizations were native. When the curtain of the last ice age came to an end, the water level rose and flooded these low -lying areas, whereby they remove any trace of prosperity. Well – almost every trace.
The submerged landscapes of the University of Bradford in Great Britain, the geological overview of the Netherlands, the Flanders Marine Institute and the University of York, these long -lost civilizations will be known as part of a subnordica. One of the old countries that is supposed to explore the project is Doggerland, which is believed to have been experiencing 8,200 years ago in the North Sea region.
“The global sea level was 130 meters lower than currently. With the progressive global warming and the increase in sea level, unique landscapes that have been at home in human societies for thousands of years, ”said Vincent Gaffney, head of the undertaking landscape research center, in a press release. “We know almost nothing about the people who have lived on these large levels. Since Europe and the world are approaching Net Zero, the development of the coastal shelves now has a strategic priority. Subnordica will use the latest technologies to research these countries and support sustainable development. “
These technologies include the mapping of the sea floor and the computer simulation of lost settlements as well as additional AI tools, seismic and acoustic surveys and boreholes. In March, the University of Bradford announced its plan for analyzing data, which are provided for from magnetometer surveys for the environmental impact assessment of future initiatives for green energy. According to university researchers, magnetic fields can help identify “visual areas of peat formation” or where erosion occurred, for example in river channels “.
And time is of crucial importance for the examination of these water copied civilizations. Another 7.7 million square miles were above the water thousands of years ago, and from this part there were 1.16 million square miles along the existing coast. The researchers describe the region as “the most attractive country for the prehistoric settlement all over the continent”.
Today, this country largely consists of the coastal shelf that is currently under development, since North Sea nations installs offshore wind farms for combating climate change. This enormous expansion of the infrastructure around green energy could restrict scientific access to these areas, so that projects like Subnordica hurry to examine the area before it is too late.
“Subnordica will examine the importance of the old coasts and its resources for humans. Through diving surveys in Aarhus Bay [in Denmark] We will find out how widespread coastal settlements were compared to those in the interior and determine how sea resources were used 9,000 to 8,500 years ago, ”said Peter Moe Astrup, underwater archaeologist in the Moesgaard Museum in Denmark. “This knowledge is then used to target archaeological studies in less accessible areas.”
When the nations fight against rising oceans -a struggle that some North Sea countries have never really finished -the research is hurried to find out what happened to these prehistoric people, which in a similar way experienced a temperature increase that threatened and finally defeated their civilizations.
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