Environment, sea-level changes, and human migrations in the northern Pontic area during late Pleistocene and Holocene times

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 297-318

  Dolukhanov, Pavel M ^a   Shilik, Konstantin K ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF MATERIAL CULTURE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Black Sea paleoenvironment; early agriculture; human migrations; sea level changes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892349188     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5302-3_12     Document Type: Chapter

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