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- The only book on the Black Sea flood hypothesis, a topic of intense scientific and popular interest (the subject of a National Geographic Special in the US: Ballard and the Black Sea)
- No other book comparable in content, both in its coverage of geological and anthropological clues to Black Sea prehistory
- Includes contributions of Eastern researchers which have rarely been published ouside of Cyrillic
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Table of contents (35 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Principal Flood Scenarios
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Research in the Northern Sector
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Research in the Western Sector
About this book
Stimulated by "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.
Editors and Affiliations
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Avalon Institute for Applied Science, Winnipeg, Canada
Valentina Yanko-Hombach
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Fordham University, Bronx, USA
Allan S. Gilbert
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National Institute of Marine Geology and Geo-ecology, Bucharest, Romania
Nicolae Panin
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University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne, UK
Pavel M. Dolukhanov
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Black Sea Flood Question: Changes in Coastline, Climate and Human Settlement
Editors: Valentina Yanko-Hombach, Allan S. Gilbert, Nicolae Panin, Pavel M. Dolukhanov
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5302-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4774-9Published: 22 November 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0465-4Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5302-3Published: 15 November 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 971
Topics: Earth Sciences, general, Climate Change Management and Policy, Geochemistry, Oceanography, Paleontology, Archaeology