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

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

1. Oxic, suboxic, and anoxic conditions in the Black Sea / James W. Murray, Keith Stewart, Steven Kassakian, Marta Krynytzky and Doug DiJulio -- 2. Molluscan paleoecology in the reconstruction of coastal changes / Daniela Basso and Cesare Corselli -- 3. Climate modeling results for the Circum-Pontic Region from the late Pleistocene to the mid-Holocene / Alexander V. Kislov and Pavel M. Toropov -- 4. Status of the Black Sea flood hypothesis / William B. F. Ryan -- 5. The Marmara Sea Gateway since 1̃6 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 and Andre Rochon -- 6. The late glacial great flood in the Ponto-Caspian basin / Andrei L. Chepalyga -- 7. Controversy over Noah's flood in the Black Sea : geological and foraminiferal evidence from the shelf / Valentina V. Yanko-Hombach -- 8. On the post-glacial changes in the level of the Black Sea / Pavel N. Kuprin and Valentin M. Sorokin -- 9. The post-glacial transgression of the Black Sea / Valery I. Shmuratko -- 10. Climate dynamics, sea-level change, and shoreline migration in the Ukrainian sector of the Circum-Pontic Region / Yuri Shuisky -- 11. The Middle Paleolithic and early Upper Paleolithic in the northern Black Sea region / Viktor P. Chabai -- 12. Environment, sea-level changes, and human migrations in the northern Pontic area during late Pleistocene and Holocene times / Pavel M. Dolukhanov and Konstantin K. Shilik -- 13. Holocene Mediterranization of the southern Crimean vegetation : paleoecological records, regional climate change, and possible non-climatic influences / Carlos E. Cordova -- 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 -- 15. Fluctuations in the level of the Black Sea and Mesolithic settlement of the northern Pontic area / Vladimir N. Stanko -- 16. The northwestern Black Sea : climatic and sea-level changes in the Late Quaternary / Nicolae Panin and Irina Popescu -- 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 -- 18. Water-level fluctuations in the Black Sea since the last glacial maximum / Gilles Lericolais, Irina Popescu, Francois Guichard, Speranta-Maria Popescu and Laurence Manolakakis -- 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 -- 20. Dendrochronology of submerged Bulgarian sites / Peter Ian Kuniholm, Maryanne W. Newton and Bernd Kromer -- 21. The Neolithization of the north Pontic area and the Balkans in the context of the Black Sea floods / Valentin A. Dergachev and Pavel M. Dolukhanov -- 22. Holocene changes in the level of the Black Sea : consequences at a human scale / Douglass W. Bailey -- 23. Morphotectonic development of the southern Black Sea region and the Bosphorus channel / Yucel Yilmaz -- 24. Sea-level changes modified the Quaternary coastlines in the Marmara region, northwestern Turkey : what about tectonic movements? / Hayrettin Koral -- 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 and Elmas Kirci-Elmas -- 26. The frozen Bosphorus and its paleoclimatic implications based on a summary of the historical data / Vural Yavuz, Naki Akcar and Christian Schluchter -- 27. Coastal changes of the Black Sea and Sea of Marmara in archaeological perspective / Mehmet Ozdogan -- 28. Submerged paleoshorelines in the southern and western Black Sea-implications for inundated prehistoric archaeological sites / Dwight F. Coleman and Robert D. Ballard -- 29. New evidence for the emergence of a maritime Black Sea economy / Owen P. Doonan -- 30. Holocene sea-level changes of the Black Sea / Igor P. Balabanov -- 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 and Sergey K. Shel'ting -- 32. Language dispersal from the Black Sea region / Johanna Nichols -- 33. Timing of the last Mediterranean Sea-Black Sea connection from isostatic models and regional sea-level data / Kurt Lambeck, Dorit Sivan and Anthony Purcell -- 34. Climatic changes in the Eastern Mediterranean from the last glacial maximum to the late Holocene / Arie S. Issar -- 35. Climate, sea level, and culture in the Eastern Mediterranean 20 ky to the present / Avraham Ronen.