Huge tsunami with 20 meter waves may have wiped out Stone Age communities in Northumberland

An enormous tsunami with gigantic waves reaching 20 meters submerged large parts of northern Europe and may have wiped out populations of people in Stone Age Britain, a new University of York study has discovered.

The research focuses on a tsunami that hit Britain and northern Europe about 8,000 years ago. The authors think the waves were so huge and the number of deaths were so high that it may have led to a massive dip in Stone Age Britain’s population.