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Lakes and marshes provided resources.
Communities of hunter-gatherers lived on it for thousands of years.
As the ice sheets melted, sea levels rose.
Doggerland shrank.
The rising waters of the North Atlantic and the rising waters of the North Sea slowly encircled what would become Britain, isolating it from the European mainland in a process that was complete by roughly 6,000 to 8,000 years ago.
The communities that lived in Doggerland moved as the water rose — some onto higher ground that became the British Isles, some onto what became the mainland of northern Europe.