Study finds indications of life on Doggerland after devastating tsunamis

Around 8,200 years ago, a series of huge tsunamis, triggered by enormous underwater landslides off the coast of Norway, severed what is now Britain from continental Europe. But scraps of the inundated area — known as Doggerland — might have survived and later been settled, say archæologists. They analysed the topography of the land now beneath the North Sea and sedimentary cores that revealed evidence of the cataclysmic Storegga slides. The land that remained could have offered the first Neolithic farmers step-stones from the continent to Britain thousands of years later.