Mesolithic

Way Down Below the Ocean…Rising Sea-Level and the Atlantean Realms of the Post-Glacial World

Way Down Below the Ocean…Rising Sea-Level and the Atlantean Realms of the Post-Glacial World

Sea level has been rising since the glaciers of the last ice age began to melt about 18,000 years ago.  In December 2012, in National Geographic, Laura Spinney brought us a story on evidence for this that has been recovered from the North Sea and adjacent estuaries and shores.