The new European Marine Board (EMB) paper called Land Beneath the Waves: Submerged Landscapes and Sea-Level Change<\/i> looks at how the successive ice ages of the last one million years have seen the sea level drop at times by up to 120m.<\/p>\n
More than 2,500 submerged prehistoric artefact assemblages have so been found around Europe, but EMB said that only a few have been properly mapped by divers or assessed by experts.<\/p>\n
Its paper concludes that seabed prehistoric remains are being destroyed by both natural erosion and industrial disturbance.<\/p>\n
The EMB said that because existing researchers are few and far between, a new focus needs to be placed on Continental Shelf Prehistoric Research, as well promoting collaboration with engineers, climate change experts and numerical modellers.<\/p>\n
It said that the report should be useful for policy makers, research funders and scientists and could help in deciding policy priorities needed to support this type of research in future.<\/p>\n
The EMB Working Group comprises of experts from 11 European nations and is chaired by Dr Nicholas Flemming of the UK National Oceanography Centre (NOC).<\/p>\n
By Anne-Marie Causer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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