doggerland it is a mirror of the past that can also tell us about our future. This is an ancient civilization of the Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic era, which was buried under water due to climate change. Archaeologists have been trying to study it for some time, but working underwater is difficult. For this reason they have now added magnetic fields to your search tools.
Responsible for this new research method is a group of scientists from Bradford University. Since they knew the approximate location of the settlements, they began to expose them to the magnetic field, since small fluctuations in it can indicate the presence of changes in the landscape, such as “areas of peat and sediment, or places where erosion has occurred.” for example, in riverbeds.
For years, fishermen in the area have found bones or tools which indicate the nearby presence of Doggerland, but the exact location of the settlement has yet to be explored. They may now have the key to achieving it and thus an analysis of that past which can tell us so much about our future.
What happened to Doggerland?
about 12,000 years agoDoggerland was located between continental Europe and the east coast of Great Britain. Today it is all water, but then the landscape consisted of gentle hills, swamps, dense forested valleys and swampy lagoons. According to archaeologists who have studied the area, the people who lived here were mostly hunter-gatherers who migrated with change of seasons.
However, the melting of glaciers due to natural climate change, and not anthropogenic, as the current one, has ended. flooding of the territory, forcing the inhabitants of Doggerland to move to higher places. Thus, this settlement became a kind of Atlantis, which to this day remains somewhat of a mystery.
Role of magnetic fields
The study authors worked with engineering consultancy Royal Haskoning. It was they who, as part of a project to study the environmental impact in the area, provided data sets on magnetic fields associated with the location of Doggerland.
For this, we used magnetometers, torpedo-like instruments that are tethered to exploration ships. These devices crawl along the seafloor and collect data on its magnetic fields. In this way, profiles are created that can be analyzed in search of anomalies associated with changes in terrain, such as those mentioned above.
I work against the clock
Currently offshore wind power became very useful alternative to fossil fuels. And it is the area in which Doggerland is located that is one of the main candidates for the continuation of the construction of plants of this type.
For this reason, the scientists of this project are working tirelessly to find signs of a settlement before the facilities make it inaccessible. If not, then the old Atlantis will be buried forever, hiding the past from us and not being able to give us information about a possible future.
Source: Hiper Textual
