The Black Sea Flood Question: Changes in Coastline, Climate, and Human Settlement

Front Matter....Pages i-xxviii
Oxic, suboxic, and anoxic conditions in the Black Sea....Pages 1-21
Molluscan paleoecology in the reconstruction of coastal changes....Pages 23-46
Climate modeling results for the Circum-Pontic Region from the late Pleistocene to the mid-Holocene....Pages 47-62
Status of the Black Sea flood hypothesis....Pages 63-88
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....Pages 89-117
The late glacial great flood in the Ponto-Caspian basin....Pages 119-148
Controversy over Noah\'s Flood in the Black Sea: geological and foraminiferal evidence from the shelf....Pages 149-203
On the post-glacial changes in the level of the Black Sea....Pages 205-220
The post-glacial transgression of the Black Sea....Pages 221-250
Climate dynamics, sea-level change, and shoreline migration in the Ukrainian sector of the Circum-Pontic Region....Pages 251-277
The Middle Paleolithic and early Upper Paleolithic in the northern Black Sea region....Pages 279-296
Environment, sea-level changes, and human migrations in the northern Pontic area during late Pleistocene and Holocene times....Pages 297-318
Holocene Mediterranization of the southern Crimean vegetation: paleoecological records, regional climate change, and possible non-climatic influences....Pages 319-344
Pontic-Caspian Mesolithic and Early Neolithic societies at the time of the Black Sea flood: a small audience and small effects....Pages 345-370
Fluctuations in the level of the Black Sea and Mesolithic settlement of the northern Pontic area....Pages 371-385
The northwestern Black Sea: climatic and sea-level changes in the Late Quaternary....Pages 387-404
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....Pages 405-435
Water-level fluctuations in the Black Sea since the Last Glacial Maximum....Pages 437-452
Archaeological and paleontological evidence of climate dynamics, sea-level change, and coastline migration in the Bulgarian sector of the Circum-Pontic Region....Pages 453-481
Dendrochronology of submerged Bulgarian sites....Pages 483-488
The Neolithization of the north Pontic area and the Balkans in the context of the Black Sea floods....Pages 489-514
Holocene changes in the level of the Black Sea: Consequences at a human scale....Pages 515-536
Morphotectonic development of the southern Black Sea region and the Bosphorus channel....Pages 537-569
Sea-level changes modified the Quaternary coastlines in the Marmara region, northwestern Turkey: What about tectonic movements?....Pages 571-601
Sea-level changes during the late Pleistocene-Holocene on the southern shelves of the Black Sea....Pages 603-631
The frozen Bosphorus and its paleoclimatic implications based on a summary of the historical data....Pages 633-649
Coastal changes of the Black Sea and Sea of Marmara in archaeological perspective....Pages 651-669
Submerged paleoshorelines in the southern and western Black Sea–Implications for inundated prehistoric archaeological sites....Pages 671-696
New evidence for the emergence of a maritime Black Sea economy....Pages 697-710
Holocene sea-level changes of the Black Sea....Pages 711-730
Sea-level changes and coastline migrations in the Russian sector of the Black Sea: Application to the Noah\'s Flood Hypothesis....Pages 731-773
Language dispersal from the Black Sea region....Pages 775-796
Timing of the last Mediterranean Sea Black Sea connection from isostatic models and regional sea-level data....Pages 797-808
Climatic changes in the Eastern Mediterranean from the Last Glacial Maximum to the late Holocene....Pages 809-818
Climate, sea level, and culture in the Eastern Mediterranean 20 ky to the present....Pages 819-832
Back Matter....Pages 833-971