Monday 15 April (Indoor Meeting): 'Europe's Lost World: The Rediscovery of Doggerland'. Speaker: Professor Vince Gaffney MBE FSA, Anniversary Chair in Landscape Archaeology, University of Bradford. 8,500 years ago the area that now forms the southern North Sea was dry land. By 5,500 BC the entire area had disappeared beneath the sea as a consequence of rising sea levels. The 'North Sea Palaeolandscape Project' has mapped 23,000 km2 of this 'lost world' using seismic data collected for mineral exploration. In mapping this exceptional landscape the project has begun to provide an insight into the historic impact of the last great phase of global warming experienced by modern man and to assess the significance of the massive loss of European land that occurred as a consequence of climate change.