Until 8,000 years ago Britain was part of the European continent. The ice melted and the seas rose for several thousand years, shrinking the land that joined us to The Netherlands and Denmark. But the final bridge only disappeared in 6000BC. Tony Robinson and the Time Team piece together the story of Britain's drowned world: the land, far bigger than England is today, lost when the North Sea and the English Channel were formed in a huge, 10,000-year flood. Archaeologists have just discovered that humans were here as far back as 700,000 years ago; until recently it was thought to be little more than half that time. For 690,000 of those 700,000 years, it seems likely that those people were living just on the edge of Britain as it is known today, mostly on the land that was drowned, and is now the bottom of the sea. Scientists are only just beginning to realise that the key to understanding our early ancestors may be on the seabed. Travelling back and forth to The Netherlands and roun...
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