[macartain]

It's increasingly accepted that a large portion of human history is 100M underwater on the continental shelves, estuaries, and other coastal areas where humans would have liked to live.

Any references for that? Genuine question.

[timschmidt]

Here's a review: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02773...

More:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1411762111

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08769-7

https://www.academia.edu/9737879/Land_Beneath_the_Waves_Subm...

https://pure.york.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/under-the-sea...

[macartain]

Much appreciated - living in the UK, I have heard of Doggerland and should have expected there would be plenty of similar areas worldwide - this is interesting stuff.

[timschmidt]

It's really amazing how much more connected the world was not very long ago. Take a look at 24k years ago here: https://sea-level.vercel.app/ Nearly every continent is one connected landmass. And all the most prime real estate is now under water.