Holocene changes in the level of the Black Sea: consequences at a human scale

摘要: Recent research on Holocene changes in the Black Sea has provided an extraordinary data set for archaeologist s studying region. Most immediate discussion focused population movements, location of submarine sites, or origins myth and legend, but proposed links between a dramatic rise spread agriculture across Europe, floods Bible, Gilgamesh epic are unhelpful. They spring from long-abandoned approaches to human behavior which causation is assumed be simple direct, environmental origin, and, more often than not, grounded movement populations (i.e., cultures). From perspective modern, critical archaeology, have important consequences, yet their importance lies not how they may immediately directly changed life Circum-Pontic region increasingly refined broadened documentation these can radically refigure our understanding period European pre- history.