Click above to listen to Part 2 of New Water Worlds, featuring Brian Fagan, archaeologist and Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of many books, including “The Attacking Ocean: the Past, Present, and Future of Rising Sea Levels.” He describes how humans fifteen thousand years ago successfully adapted to the loss of land at Dogger Bank, which now lies beneath the North Sea between Europe and the U.K.

New Water Worlds:
Part 1: Jeff Goodell / Doomed Miami
Part 2: Brian Fagan / Ancestral Adaptation
Part 3: David Anderson / Endangered History
Part 4: Jeff Goodell / Flood Solutions

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