Doggerland

This is a land that is now undersea. Due to tidal waves and the rising ocean, it is now underwater. This land is the landbridge that connected the Great Britain Isle to northern Europe. There are fossils under the water that are close to the sand and rock enough that sometimes fishing vessels dredge them up. Fossils of antlers, mammoths, and various human tools have been found.https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doggerland&oldid=1220946383 It is also an underwater environmental ecosystem. It has historically been the place of several wars- on the top of the sea. 
== Etymology ==
Doggerland is named after Dogger Bank, which is an area between 20 - 65 feet in depth in the middle of the ocean, but close to Great Britain.https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dogger_Bank&oldid=1217003896 Doggerland is not named after dogs, though of course that mean now applies, at least deep in our heads. Nor does it reflect the word "dogged" which also feels like a dog-related word. It is instead named for the fishing vessels of the Dutch which catch cods. The vessels are called dogger, which moved into English,https://www.etymonline.com/word/dogger and the word in Dutch means something more like "cod-der" or just cod.https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dogger#English Related, the term "doggerman" meaning "codman" or a fisherman of cod. These were the words used in Middle English, with the earliest reference being from the 1300s.
The origin of the word "dogger" starting from Dutch is unknown, I can't find it. Most websites I look into don't know it. It goes to the word "dogger" which is an old name for cod that likely came from the Dutch.https://www.oed.com/dictionary/dogger-fish_nhttps://www.oed.com/dictionary/dogger_n1?tl=true The modern word for an adult cod in Dutch is "kabeljauw" which originates from Latin.https://edepot.wur.nl/419326 As stated in the reference, the Latin meaning is erased from it's Dutch transliteration and evolution, and thus it is more of a word that sounds on its own or sounds like other Dutch words (as I don't speak Dutch). During the time in which young cod were mistaken to be a seperate species, they were dubbed as "dors" which starts off the same, but may be different in some etymological senses. This difference is between the two is noted as being similar to another species in Dutch, the eel. Due to the culinary usages and the way it is prepared and perhaps the way that it looks (I'm not looking it up right now), the young of one species was thought to be a different species than another. This continues today for eel to some extent.https://www.palingkopen.nl/verschil-tussen-aal-en-paling/#Geografische%20Indeling However, that is not true to the modern day, as both young and old cod are now called kabeljauw.
Thus, Doggerland is named after the cod fish. A fish often used for human consumption from ancient times to modern. An ironically, the land is no more, as it is just maritime.
== Land ==
Doggerland can, depending on the geographer's/archeologist/paleontologist/etc's definition, can exten anywhere between the whole of the now sea-area extending around Ireland and Great Britain all the way to Scandinavia, or the little area between Great Britain and the modern countries of Netherlands and Denmark. For the sake of simplicity and because the Dogger Bank it's named after is in this area, we are only going to define it as the land-bridge-- or rather, the land that was there that extends between these countries, as we percieve it in our modern eye. It seems to have been land north of a lake that is now just ocean. This land was washed away by tsunamis about 8,000 years ago.https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/01/doggerland-lost-atlantis-of-the-north-sea-gives-up-its-ancient-secrets 
Back when it was actually land and not marine waters, doggerland had many land animals. Red and roe deer and swines were hunted by Neanderthals.https://nl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doggerland&oldid=66391371 There were also rhinoceroses and mammoths. It seems like there are more tools and other human evidence than anything else, which I could put here, but I don't really want to. This sea has some of Europe's oldest fossils of human evidence,https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-11-20/searching-for-doggerland-archaeology-palaeontology-scandinavia/11707174 but I really just want to know more about the animal fossils. I think that we can expect that other commonly established Ice Age-and-before mammals were walking around here along with the rest of continental Europe. There are notes of it being wetlands and mudlands and having birch trees, but I just don't feel like writing about it if I don't have the animal data. I only have the animal killing data, because so many human tools were found around the shore and in the water. 
== References ==
Category:Fossil Sites
Category:Europe
Category:Land bridges