Submerged prehistory / edited by Jonathan Benjamin ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Benjamin, Jonathan, 1977-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antiquities, Prehistoric.

Prehistoric peoples.

Underwater archaeology.

Underwater archaeology--Research.

Landscape archaeology.

Landscape archaeology--Research.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Research.

Physical Description:

xiii, 338 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Oakville : Oxbow Books, [2011]

Summary:

Archaeologists and related professionals explore those parts of the prehistoric archaeological record that now lie under water. Most of the sites and finds described were inundated as a result of the global sea-level rise of some 120 meters that occurred during the Final Pleistocene and Early Holocene. The topics include the excavation of a Mesolithic double burial from Tybrind Vig in Denmark, investigating palaeo-land surfaces with Palaeolithic remains from the southern North Sea, preliminary results from acoustic and underwater survey of submarine neolithic stone rows near Carnac in France, submerged prehistory in the Americas, submerged sites and drowned topographies along the Anatolian coasts, and a research infrastructure for the systematic study of the prehistoric archaeology of the European submerged continental shelf. About half of the 25-peer reviewed papers are from a September 2009 conference in Riva del Garda, Italy. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781842174180

1842174185

OCLC:

678476328