The Black Sea flood question : changes in coastline, climate and human settlement / edited by Valentina Yanko-Hombach ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yanko-Hombach, Valentina.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geology--Black Sea.

Geology.

Geology--Black Sea Region.

History.

Black Sea--History.

Black Sea.

Black Sea Region.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 971 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht : Springer, [2007]

Summary:

Stimulated by the "Noah's Flood Hypothesis" proposed by W. Ryan and W. Pitman in which a catastrophic inundation of the Pontic basin was linked to the biblical story, leading experts in Black Sea research (including oceanography, marine geology, paleoclimate, paleoenvironment, archaeology, and linguistic spread) provide overviews of their data and interpretations obtained through empirical scientific approaches. Among the contributors are many East European scientists whose work has rarely been published outside of Cyrillic. Each of the 35 papers marshals its own evidence for or against the flood hypothesis. No summary or overall resolution to the flood question is presented, but instead access is provided to a broad range of interdisciplinary information that crosses previously impenetrable language barriers so that new work in the region can proceed with the benefit of a wider frame of reference. The three fundamental scenarios describing the late glacial to Holocene rise in the level of the Black Sea-catastrophic, gradual, and oscillating-are presented in the early pages, with the succeeding papers organized by geographic sector: northern (Ukraine), western (Moldova, Romania, and Bulgaria), southern (Turkey), and eastern (Georgia and Russia), as well as three papers on the Mediterranean. The volume thus brings together eastern and western scholarship to share research findings and perspectives on a controversial subject. In addition, appendices are included containing some 600 radiocarbon dates from the Pontic region obtained by USSR and western laboratories.

Contents:

1 Oxic, suboxic, and anoxic conditions in the Black Sea / James W. Murray, Keith Stewart, Steven Kassakian, Marta Krynytzky, Doug DiJuli 1

2 Molluscan paleoecology in the reconstruction of coastal changes / Daniela Basso, Cesare Corselli 23

3 Climate modeling results for the Circum-Pontic Region from the late Pleistocene to the mid-Holocene / Alexander V. Kislov, Pavel M. Toropov 47

Principal Flood Scenarios

4 Status of the Black Sea flood hypothesis / William B.F. Ryan 63

5 The Marmara Sea Gateway since - 16 ky BP: non-catastrophic causes of paleoceanographic events in the Black Sea at 8.4 and 7.15 ky BP / Richard N. Hiscott, Ali E. Aksu, Peta J. Mudie, Michael A. Kaminski, Teofilo Abrajano, Dogan Yasar, Andre Rochon|p89

6 The late glacial great flood in the Ponto-Caspian basin / Andrei L. Chepalyga 119

7 Controversy over Noah's Flood in the Black Sea: geological and foraminiferal evidence from the shelf / Valentina V. Yanko-Hombach 149

Research in the Northern Sector

8 On the post-glacial changes in the level of the Black Sea / Pavel N. Kuprin, Valentin M. Sorokin 205

9 The post-glacial transgression of the Black Sea / Valery I. Shmuratko 221

10 Climate dynamics, sea-level change, and shoreline migration in the Ukrainian sector of the Circum-Pontic Region / Yuri Shuisky 251

11 The Middle Paleolithic and early Upper Paleolithic in the northern Black Sea region / Viktor P. Chabai 279

12 Environment, sea-level changes, and human migrations in the northern Pontic area during late Pleistocene and Holocene times / Pavel M. Dolukhanov, Konstantin K. Shilik 297

13 Holocene Mediterranization of the southern Crimean vegetation: paleoecological records, regional climate change, and possible non-climatic influences / Carlos E. Cordova 319

14 Pontic-Caspian Mesolithic and Early Neolithic societies at the time of the Black Sea flood: a small audience and small effects / David W. Anthony 345

15 Fluctuations in the level of the Black Sea and Mesolithic settlement of the northern Pontic area / Vladimir N. Stanko 371

Research in the Western Sector

16 The northwestern Black Sea: climatic and sea-level changes in the Late Quaternary / Nicolae Panin, Irina Popescu 387

17 Sea-level fluctuations and coastline migration in the northwestern Black Sea area over the last 18 ky based on high-resolution lithological-genetic analysis of sediment architecture / Evgeny G. Konikov 405

18 Water-level fluctuations in the Black Sea since the Last Glacial Maximum / Gilles Lericolais, Irina Popescu, Francois Guichard, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Laurence Manolakakis 437

19 Archaeological and paleontological evidence of climate dynamics, sea-level change, and coastline migration in the Bulgarian sector of the Circum-Pontic Region / Mariana Filipova-Marinova 453

20 Dendrochronology of submerged Bulgarian sites / Peter Ian Kuniholm, Maryanne W. Newton, Bernd Kromer 483

21 The Neolithization of the north Pontic area and the Balkans in the context of the Black Sea floods / Valentin A. Dergachev, Pavel M. Dolukhanov 489

22 Holocene changes in the level of the Black Sea: Consequences at a human scale / Douglass W. Bailey 515

Research in the Southern Sector

23 Morphotectonic development of the southern Black Sea region and the Bosphoms channel / Yucel Yilmaz 537

24 Sea-level changes modified the Quaternary coastlines in the Marmara region, northwestern Turkey: What about tectonic movements? / Hayrettin Koral 571

25 Sea-level changes during the late Pleistocene-Holocene on the southern shelves of the Black Sea / Oya Algan, Mustafa Ergin, Seref Keskin, Erkan Gokasan, Bedri Alpar, Demet Ongan, Elmas Kirci-Elmas 603

26 The frozen Bosphorus and its paleoclimatic implications based on a summary of the historical data / Vural Yavuz, Naki Akcar, Christian Schluchter 633

27 Coastal changes of the Black Sea and Sea of Marmara in archaeological perspective / Mehmet Ozdogan 651

28 Submerged paleoshorelines in the southern and western Black Sea-Implications for inundated prehistoric archaeological sites / Dwight F. Coleman, Robert D. Ballard 671

29 New evidence for the emergence of a maritime Black Sea economy / Owen P. Doonan 697

Research in the Eastern Sector

30 Holocene sea-level changes of the Black Sea / Igor P. Balabanov 711

31 Sea-level changes and coastline migrations in the Russian sector of the Black Sea: Application to the Noah's Flood Hypothesis / Alexander Yu. Glebov, Sergey K. Shel'ting 731

32 Language dispersal from the Black Sea region / Johanna Nichols 775

Research in the Mediterranean

33 Timing of the last Mediterranean Sea-Black Sea connection from isostatic models and regional sea-level data / Kurt Lambeck, Dorit Sivan, Anthony Purcell 797

34 Climatic changes in the Eastern Mediterranean from the Last Glacial Maximum to the late Holocene / Arie S. Issar 809

35 Climate, sea level, and culture in the Eastern Mediterranean 20 ky to the present / Avraham Ronen 819

Appendix 1 Table of Radiocarbon Dates from USSR Sources / Igor P. Balabanov 835

Appendix 2 Table of Radiocarbon Dates from USSR and non-USSR Sources / Valentina Yanko-Hombach 861

Appendix 3 Programs from October-November, 2003, conferences 879

Taxonomic Index 963.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781402047749

1402047746

OCLC:

77482394