How did small-scale societies in the past experience and respond to
sea-level rise? What happened when their dwellings, hunting grounds
and ancestral lands were lost under an advancing tide? This book
asks these questions in relation to the hunter-gatherer inhabitants
of a lost prehistoric land; a land that became entirely inundated
and now lies beneath the North Sea. It seeks to understand how
these people viewed and responded to their changing environment,
suggesting that people were not struggling against nature, but
simply getting on with life - with all its trials and hardships,
satisfactions and pleasures, and with a multitude of choices
available. At the same time, this loss of land - the loss of places
and familiar locales where myths were created and identities formed
- would have profoundly affected people's sense of being. This book
moves beyond the static approach normally applied to environmental
change in the past to capture its nuances. Through this, a richer
and more complex story of past sea-level rise develops; a story
that may just have resonance for us today.
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