Practice question · Fill in the blanks
Complete the account of the drowned world.
As the ice melted, sea levels rose by more than ______ metres, and the populated plain of ______, where the North Sea is now, went under, taking its people’s homeland with it.
Word bank: a hundred · Doggerland · ten · Beringia
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- An inhabited plain now lies beneath the sea.
- Fishing vessels still recover its bones and tools.
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As the ice melted, sea levels rose by more than a hundred metres, and the populated plain of Doggerland, where the North Sea is now, went under, taking its people’s homeland with it.
Why
Doggerland is the reminder that prehistory has a submerged half. Trawlers still bring up its bones and tools, an entire inhabited landscape that our maps of "Mesolithic Europe" quietly omit.
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