10,000 year old Orkney rises from beneath the waves

A map of Orkney 10,000 years ago is beginning to paint a picture of how the islands appeared to the first settlers who arrived there at the end of the last Ice Age. The culmination of a year’s work by The Rising Tide Project – The Submerged Landscape of Orkney, the map was produced by taking sediment samples from sites around Scapa Flow and combining the information with bathymetric data.
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Past Horizons