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Saturday, March 19, 2022

Fears dash for wind power could endanger lost world of Doggerland

Archeologists worry rapid expansion of North Sea projects could seal off access to rare Mesolithic remains

While the Conservative party’s proposed dash for wind power is good news for the climate it could be bad news for archaeology, with rapid offshore windfarm development sealing off access to some of the best preserved and most complete evidence of early human communities in the world.

Much remains to be learned about the humans who roamed the planet before the advent of farming. “There’s a common perception that they were short, brutish and nasty, and that they had to keep moving and scrabbling around to feed themselves,” says Vince Gaffney, a landscape archaeologist at the University of Bradford.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/Ke9NFVt

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