By Jim Leary
How did small-scale societies long ago event and reply to sea-level upward thrust? What occurred while their dwellings, looking grounds and ancestral lands have been misplaced lower than an advancing tide? This booklet asks those questions in terms of the hunter-gatherer population of a misplaced prehistoric land; a land that grew to become completely inundated and now lies underneath the North Sea. It seeks to appreciate how those humans seen and spoke back to their altering atmosphere, suggesting that individuals weren't suffering opposed to nature, yet easily getting on with existence – with all its trials and hardships, satisfactions and pleasures, and with a large number of selections to be had. while, this lack of land – the lack of areas and accepted locales the place myths have been created and identities shaped – could have profoundly affected people's feel of being. This booklet strikes past the static method usually utilized to environmental swap some time past to trap its nuances. via this, a richer and extra complicated tale of previous sea-level upward thrust develops; a narrative that could simply have resonance for us at the present time
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This is an area, like its Dutch counterpart, rich in prehistoric sites. The river system here was dominated by the Scheldt, which formed a tributary of the Rhine/ Meuse delta. The construction of docks around the port of Antwerp in the River Scheldt valley in the last ten years, and intensive and systematic fieldwalking in the last twenty-five years, has led to the discovery of well-preserved Mesolithic sites, suggesting that Sandy Flanders was intensively occupied during the Late Glacial and early Mesolithic periods.
6 South of the Dutch border in northwest Belgium, and sharing the same coversands geology, is Sandy Flanders. This is an area, like its Dutch counterpart, rich in prehistoric sites. The river system here was dominated by the Scheldt, which formed a tributary of the Rhine/ Meuse delta. The construction of docks around the port of Antwerp in the River Scheldt valley in the last ten years, and intensive and systematic fieldwalking in the last twenty-five years, has led to the discovery of well-preserved Mesolithic sites, suggesting that Sandy Flanders was intensively occupied during the Late Glacial and early Mesolithic periods.
Eustatic sea-level rise is the global return of water to the ocean basins as a result of the deglaciation described above. 4 There are, however, many localized variables that modify this rise in global water supply, and vertical changes at any given point are referred to as relative sea level. As we shall see in this chapter, sea-level rise was not a slow and steady process, but a fitful one. One of the dominant processes controlling these variables is the isostatic readjustment of the earth’s surface following the decrease of ice-loads – quite literally the earth’s surface bounces very slowly back up when the weight of the ice has lifted after it melts.