Very likely! :)

There's a long list of interesting items that have turned up between those islands all the way to present day UK - most of which have been dated to that time period.

A spear, bones of both humans and animals roots from trees etc. It was a refugia for many species found in northern Europe and southern Scandinavia today.

Thank you for this rapid reply- helps me to understand this interesting issue!

Johannes

You're welcome. :) I am far from an expert on this, but the present day distribution of some animals and plants make more sense if this and 2 more northern refugias are considered. It's less certain that humans did live in the two more northern ones - though it have been suggested that the Komsa culture might be one such. I happened upon a map in my computer so I added it here.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge

Dear Colleagues,

Thanks for your for helpful Suggestions and Contributions to the discussion. I have tried to describe the finding and its context in a short post of my Blog.

https://aggsbach.fossilserver.de/index.php?Single&2201

One Question remains: would you see the islands as part of Doggerland during the younger Dryas?

Trying to get facts

Johannes Meller

Would you see the islands as part of Doggerland during the younger Dryas?

Well I can only state an opinion, but in my mind the islands are part of continental Europe, just as they are today. If there had been a cartographer back in the day, you find a situation when Doggerland disconnect from present day Denmark, Germany, Holland and England. And the areas close to the latter would be part of those countries instead.

So just as the Doggerland text is written on the map I did show, the area is more to the west. And as the area got flooded, Doggers bank get a separate island.

Then again I do not know what scientific accuracy that map could be said to have, the ice free refugia in the area of present day Kristiansund & Trondheim is not shown. And the country was quite wider in the north back then, starting at a point around present day Flora up to a point around Hammerfest. A shallow area at about the latitutude of Tromso is thought to have been the site of the more northern Refugia - this one is thought to have been more barren with coastal conditions similar to present day Greenland.

For completeness on a few items I mentioned above I include one image I made myself and only used in one internal discussion that show the different distribution for ice age relict species (those follow the Scandinavian mountain range) and those thought to have lived in refugia and then to spread somewhat in the northern and mid-norther part of Scandinavia as the ice did withdraw. As the distribution maps show (though in some cases they only show the Swedish distribution and on others only the Norwegian one) there might also have been quite a number of species that thrived in the ice lakes as well.

Thanks Anders- I think thats the correct answer to my question and matches to the limited literature I know about the issue

Best Regards

JM