Scientists reveal a lost world under the North Sea: Doggerland

Scientists at the University of Birmingham are using seismic data to reveal a spectacular prehistoric landscape, Doggerland, previously unknown to science where early man roamed more than 10,000 years ago, deep beneath the North Sea.

With the aid of new high-powered computing facilities at the University's HP VISTA (Visualisation and Spatial Technology) Centre, a team of archaeologists, geologists and engineers are beginning to explore and visualise this hidden landscape, which, during the period from 8000 - 18,000 years before the present day, was a large plain on which humans hunted animals & gathered plants ... University of Birmingham