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.

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 :)

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

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 🤔

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

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! :-)

@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!

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!

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.

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.

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 👌🏽

Doggerland is what we call our local Tesco Carpark.

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

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

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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😜

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

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

First time viewer, long time KZfaqr 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.

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

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 😊

Best Doggerland video I’ve seen. Thanks Joe

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

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.

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.

Fantastic video, as usual Joe! Thanks!

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

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

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.

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 😅

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.

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)

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I often feel like I'm auditing a real academic course when I watch videos like this by Joe Scott, where the teacher is the best on campus and enrollment always rapidly fills up to maximum.

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

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

I so love all your stuff!

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

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.

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

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.

First i will watch your TMI video on this topic (in KZfaq) then i will show myself to nebula which is awesome, thanks for the offer of 14$ a year! Please, upload in nebula TMI and conversations. Thanks!

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 👍

Thank you for sharing this that was an interesting topic.

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...

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..

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..

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...

thanks for great content!

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.

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.

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.

I've been to Iceland three times and have flown over Greenland many times and it always amazes me that Greenland is mostly Ice and Iceland is mostly green. I always wonder how long ago the switch happened?

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

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.

Thank you for explaining geological and global weather timelines that extend thousands of years and why global warning promoters don't understand the timescale of weather cycles.

Used your link and subbed to CS thanks for the discount Joe!.....and you were my first follow on nebula......viewer/content creator goals!!! 🤣

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

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

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.

What I find interesting is that according to Plato, Atlantis was off the coast of North Africa. And according to topography of the ocean floor, there's a pretty geometric square pattern with grids inside of it off of the coast of North Africa.

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

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.

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.

you should do a video on the antikythera mechanism found in the mediterranean .. an ancient analog computer. pretty nuts.

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.

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.

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

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.

This is also true of the Great Barrier Reef as well. There are oral records from the Native Australians that match the geological history of the Reef's formation and rising sea levels. It's estimated that after the last mini ice age we had the sea levels in Australia rose fast enough that they lost kilometres of shoreline at a rate that was noticeable over a single lifetime in that era. The reefs are on top of a shelf that used to be above water about 10 000 years ago and people living there at that time lived out on these shelves since access to the shore was access to food for them. The oral legend says something about a hunter accidentally catching a stingray on his spear which was actually one of their gods in physical form; being kind of pissed off about getting a spear through it the god in turn raised the seas and flooded the villages so the people had to move further inland away from the better fishing areas.

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.

Top tier Joe Scott content 👌👌

That Woody stock image made me laugh, more than I should of. Thanks for the excellent content Joe!

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?