The catastrophic final flooding of Doggerland by the Storegga Slide tsunami

Weninger, Bernhard; Schulting, Rick; Bradtmöller, Marcel; Lee, Clare; Collard, Mark; Edinborough, Kevan; Hilpert, Johanna; Jöris, Olaf; Niekus, M.J.L.Th.; Rohling, Eelco J.; Wagner, Bernd

doi:10.4312/dp.35.1

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“…The replacing form thus would have colonized over 'Doggerland', a landmass now submerged beneath the North Sea (Spinney 2008). That submersion and the formation of the English Channel occurred at approximately 8000 BP (Weninger et al 2008), which resulted in Britain being severed from continental Europe and halting any further land colonizations from there by small mammals.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Celtic fringe of Britain: insights from small mammal phylogeography

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Recent genetic studies have challenged the traditional view that the ancestors of British Celtic people spread from central Europe during the Iron Age and have suggested a much earlier origin for them as part of the human recolonization of Britain at the end of the last glaciation. Here we propose that small mammals provide an analogue to help resolve this controversy. Previous studies have shown that common shrews (Sorex araneus) with particular chromosomal characteristics and water voles (Arvicola terrestris) of a specific mitochondrial (mt) DNA lineage have peripheral western/northern distributions with striking similarities to that of Celtic people. We show that mtDNA lineages of three other small mammal species (bank vole Myodes glareolus, field vole Microtus agrestis and pygmy shrew Sorex minutus) also form a 'Celtic fringe'. We argue that these small mammals most reasonably colonized Britain in a two-phase process following the last glacial maximum (LGM), with climatically driven partial replacement of the first colonists by the second colonists, leaving a peripheral geographical distribution for the first colonists. We suggest that these natural Celtic fringes provide insight into the same phenomenon in humans and support its origin in processes following the end of the LGM.

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The Celtic fringe of Britain: insights from small mammal phylogeography

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“…The bibliography consulted is extensive (Alley et al, 1997;Bond et al, 1997;Bianchi and McCave, 1999;Hu et al, 1999;Perry and Hsu, 2000;Bond et al, 2001;Ogutsov et al, 2001;Sümegi et al, 2002;Magny et al, 2003;Mayewski et al, 2004;Alley and Ágústsdóttir, 2005;Bailey, 2006;Kuper and Kröpelin, 2006;Weninger et al, 2006;BoutRoumazeilles et al, 2007;Budja, 2007;Thomas et al, 2007;Weninger et al, 2007;Clare et al, 2008;Weninger et al, 2008;Berger and Guilaine, 2009;Bocquet-Appel et al, 2009;Gronenborn, 2009;Gronenborn and Sirocko, 2009;Kotova, 2009;Weninger et al, 2009;Clare and Weninger, 2010;Kotova and Makhortykh, 2010;Gulýas and Sümegi, 2011;Lemmen et al, 2011;Carozza et al, 2012;Welc and Marks, 2014 -all with their corresponding bibliography) but we will only take specific RCC intervals into consideration and their correlation with archaeological indicators for the observed region of Slavonia.…”

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Climatic Influences on Appearance and Development of Neolithic Cultures in Southern Outskirts of Carpathian Basin

Botić

2016

Studia Quaternaria

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Southern outskirts of Carpathian basin, namely the region between Sava, Drava and Danube rivers, have specific climate conditions today partially influenced by geological structure and geographical position. In this region Neolithic Starèevo and Sopot cultures are observed. Radiocarbon dates for Neolithic cultures are used to build a time frame which is compared with climate proxies, especially with Holocene rapid climate events (8.2, 5.9 and 4.2 ka), to draw a conclusion on when and how these cultures developed in southern regions of Carpathian basin. Lacking firm geoarchaeological data the results are not conclusive but can provide some insight on how the climate may have directly and indirectly influenced development of Neolithic and beginning of Eneolithic period in the region.

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“…During the Late Pleistocene the site was located deep in the heart of the continent several hundred kms away from the seashore southeast of the Doggerland Peninsula, which occupied the North Sea at the time [22]. Certain researchers connected the inundation of the area of Doggerland to a catastrophic event: the Storega Slide tsunami (8200 cal BC) [23]. As a result of this event much of the originally dry areas were inundated by the sea transgressing as far as the Watt Sea.…”

Section: Regional Settingmentioning

confidence: 99%