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The Archaeology of Europe’s Drowned Landscapes by Geoff Bailey, Nena Galanidou, Hans Peeters, Hauke Jöns, Moritz Mennenga is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This open access volume provides for the first time a comprehensive description and scientific evaluation of underwater archaeological finds referring to human occupation of the continental shelf around the coastlines of Europe and the Mediterranean when sea levels were lower than present. These are the largest body of underwater finds worldwide, amounting to over 2500 find spots, ranging from individual stone tools to underwater villages with unique conditions of preservation. The material reviewed here ranges in date from the Lower Palaeolithic period to the Bronze Age and covers 20 countries bordering all the major marine basins from the Atlantic coasts of Ireland and Norway to the Black Sea, and from the western Baltic to the eastern Mediterranean. The finds from each country are presented in their archaeological context, with information on the history of discovery, conditions of preservation and visibility, their relationship to regional changes in sea-level and coastal geomorphology, and the institutional arrangements for their investigation and protection. Editorial introductions summarise the findings from each of the major marine basins. There is also a final section with

Who reads The Archaeology of Europe’s Drowned Landscapes?

Author

Geoff Bailey, Nena Galanidou, Hans Peeters, Hauke Jöns, Moritz Mennenga

Publisher

Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9783030373689

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Archaeology, Humanities