ForewordVince GaffneyFirst encountersLeendert Louwe KooijmansFollowing in their footsteps, but choosing my own pathLeo VerhartPART 1 DOGGERLANDA lost world rediscoveredLuc AmkreutzIce, rivers, sea and spectacle. Geological variation in a drowned landscapeKim Cohen & Marc HijmaMapping a drowning landLuc Amkreutz, , Kim Cohen, Marc Hijma & Olav OdéPART 2 DOGGERLAND EARLY INHABITANTSStepping into Britain. Happisburgh and the first humans in northern EuropeNick AshtonCitizen science and the submerged Palaeolithic landscapes in the North SeaRachel BynoeKrijn. Face to face with Doggerland’s first NeanderthalLuc Amkreutz & Luc AnthonisNeanderthals in the cold ‘North Sea Serengeti’Marcel Niekus & Dimitri de LoeckerNeanderthal treasuresMarcel Niekus, Dimitri de Loecker & Luc AmkreutzModern humans at the end of the Ice AgeLuc Amkreutz & Marcel NiekusThe oldest art. Ice age ExpressionismLuc Amkreutz, Marcel Niekus & Jan GlimmerveenAnimals of the mammoth steppeDick Mol, Bram Langeveld & Jørn ZeilerPART 3 DROWNING DOGGERLANDAnimals after the ice ageJørn ZeilerHunter-gatherers in a rich wetlandLuc Amkreutz & Marcel NiekusA lucky shot? A red deer in the crosshairsMarcel NiekusA thousand hunts. Barbed points from DoggerlandMerel SpithovenBouldnor Cliff. A drowned prehistoric site emerging from the seabedGarry MomberRotterdam-Yangtze Harbour. Excavating at 20 metres deepDimitri SchiltmansThe North Sea as Highway. Neolithic argonauts and prehistoric tradeLuc Amkreutz & Jan GlimmerveenPART 4 DOGGERLAND INVESTIGATEDTracing people. Secrets of bones and teeth unravelledEveline Altena, Lisette Kootker, Bjørn Smit & Paul StormPoints of animal and human bone. Sorting with collagenJoannes Dekker, Virginie Sinet-Mathiot, Alexander Verpoorte, Marie Soressi & Frido WelkerEurope’s Lost Frontiers. Mapping the landscapeVince Gaffney & Simon FitchOn course to the Brown Bank. Research in the North SeaTine Missiaen & Ruth PletsPART 5 DOGGERLAND TODAYCollecting Doggerland. Searching along the coast, making finds and then?Luc Amkreutz, Rachel Bynoe, Bjørn Smit & Sasja van der Vaart-VerschoofThe North Sea. The busiest sea in the worldLuc Amkreutz & Stichting de NoordzeeFuture for Doggerland? Collect, research and protectHans Peeters & Bjørn SmitThinking of Doggerland. A vanished landscape rememberedLuc Amkreutz & Sasja van der Vaart-VerschoofAfterwordHans PeetersFurther readingThis popular-science book tells the story of one of the most important, but least known major archaeological sites in Europe: Doggerland. Few people know that the beaches along the North Sea lie on the edge of a vast lost world. A prehistoric landscape that documents almost a million years of human habitation and lay dry for most of that time. Doggerland is where early hominids left the first footprints in northern Europe, more than 900,000 years ago. Later, for hundreds of thousands of years, it was the scene of ice ages. A world of woolly mammoths and rhinoceroses, horses and reindeer and the successful Neanderthals who hunted them, including Krijn: the first Neanderthal from Doggerland. At the end of the last Ice Age, the first modern humans also left their traces here, including the famous Leman-and-Ower-Banks spearhead – the first documented Doggerland find – and some of the oldest art in the region. With the onset of the Holocene, our current era, Doggerland’s inhabitants were increasingly confronted with climate change and rising sea levels, just as we are today. The Mesolithic hunter-gatherers lived in a rich, but constantly changing world – to which they successfully adapted. Ongoing submergence and a huge tsunami around 6150 BC marked the beginning of the end. A few centuries later, the last islands disappeared under the waves and with them the story of Doggerland was lost in time. This book brings this vanished world back to the surface.