Lost land of the Stone Age sages

Skara Brae, the world’s best preserved Neolithic village, on Mainland, the largest island in the Orkney archipelago. Image: Visit Scotland.

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…