Lost land of the Stone Age sages
About 8,000 years ago, there was a titanic landslide in the Norwegian Sea, resulting in a catastrophic tsunami that swept across low-lying islands which were once part of a land-bridge — Doggerland — connecting Britain to mainland Europe.
Three Storegga Slides, as they are called, occuring at the edge of Norway’s continental shelf between 6225–6170 BCE and causing tidal waves to sweep across the North Atlantic Ocean, are among the greatest known submarine landslides.
Although Doggerland was already being submerged by rising sea levels following the end of the last ice age, threatening human habitation there, it’s thought that coastal areas of England, Scotland and mainland Europe would also have been inundated following the slides, with devastating impact on mesolithic (Middle Stone Age) peoples.
Now, a revealing new book, The Mystery of Doggerland: Atlantis in the North Sea, by Graham Phillips (Bear & Company, July 2023), presents persuasive evidence that the ingenious British and Irish megalithic culture originated on an island which once existed alongside what are the present Orkney Islands — an ‘Atlantis of the North’, in a region referred to as North Doggerland, whose people, their sages and artisans, migrated to the Orkneys when their island was becoming flooded, and who later took their way of life to the people of mainland…
