BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Lost world warning from North Sea: "It also serves as a warning for the scale of impact that climate change can cause, he says.
Human communities would have lost their homelands as the rising water began to encroach upon the wide, low-lying plains.
'At times this change would have been insidious and slow - but at times, it could have been terrifyingly fast. It would have been very traumatic for these people,' he says.
'It would be a mistake to think that these people were unsophisticated or without culture... they would have had names for the rivers and hills and spiritual associations - it would have been a catastrophic loss,' says Professor Gaffney."
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